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Heard on 1995/07/12
Delivered on 1995/10/11
and
APPEAL JUDGMENT
The four charges that the accused faced were the following:
(a) Murder;
"(a) that the shot that struck the deceased was fired
"To sum up
decision in Hong Kong where there was a move away from the
briefly with the reasons the accused gave for the shooting.
These reasons are apparent from what they told some of the
The reasons why I say the accused did not discharge the onus
are as follows. The uncontested evidence is that the
shooting started when the canoe was already in Zambia. The
accused were thus not entitled to arrest the persons in the
canoe as the Act does not operate extra-territorially (S y
In the result:
FRANK, A.J.A.
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I agree.
MAHOMED, C.J.
I agree.
LEON, A.J.A
I agree.
SILUNGWE, A.J.A
/mv
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