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January 1988
Zwimba v People (S.C.Z. Judgment 18 of 1988) [1988] ZMSC 2 (25 January 1988)
An appellate court may increase a sentence only for statutory-minimum omission, total inadequacy, or wrong-in-principle.
  • Sentence on appeal — Increase of sentence — Appellate increase permissible only where statutory minimum omitted, original sentence totally inadequate, or wrong in principle — Need for reasons when increasing sentence
25 January 1988
Kachomba and Ors v People (Appeal 54 of 1985) [1988] ZMSC 57 (20 January 1988)
Daylight multiple identifications corroborated by recovered stolen property and a firearm upheld armed robbery convictions.
  • Criminal law — identification evidence — Turnbull warnings for fleeting sightings — corroboration by possession of stolen property — proof and linking of firearm — joint enterprise liability — scope of police duty to investigate alibis.
20 January 1988