1.This is an application for leave to appeal the whole judgement of this Court dismissing the applicant’s appeal against the judgement of the magistrates court convicting him of two counts of stock theft as defined in S114 (2) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (the Criminal Law Code) and the sentence of 9 years imprisonment imposed on him on each count. The court a quo did not order the 9 years imprisonment sentence imposed on the applicant in court two to run concurrently with the like sentence imposed in count one More
On 13 March 1984 the plaintiff and the late Jackson Jekera entered into an agreement of sale of an immovable property namely, Stand no. 13451- Unit ‘N’ Seke. The agreement was reduced to writing. In terms of the agreement of sale the late Jackson Jekera sold his rights in the said property to plaintiff for the sum of $1100 Zimbabwean dollars. The plaintiff paid a deposit of $800 and the balance was to be paid by May 1984. More
In this civil trial the plaintiff led evidenced from one witness and closed his case. The 1st 2nd and 3rd defendants have applied for absolution from the instance at the close of the plaintiff’s case. The plaintiff resists the applications. More
The plaintiffs being children of the late Taworamwoyo Nelson Dhliwayo, who died on 10 June 2016, issued summons against the defendants in February 2023, for an order declaring null and void, a will which the late executed on 8 June 2012. That Will excluded as beneficiaries the plaintiffs who are all his children.
In their summons, they challenged the Will on the basis that it was invalid as the now deceased, at the time of the Will’s execution, was said to have not been in a mental state to execute a valid will because he suffered from senile dementia. In... More
The appellant appeared before the provincial magistrate at Kwekwe Magistrates’ Court on 28 August, 2009 for trial. He was charged with and pleaded guilty to 5 counts of unlawful entry as defined in s 131 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act, [Chapter 9:23] and 5 counts of theft as defined in s 131 of the same enactment. The appellant was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment on each of the 10 counts as aforesaid. The total sentence imposed therefore was 20 years imprisonment. 3 years of the sentence was suspended for 5 years on the usual condition of future... More
