This is an appeal against sentence imposed on the appellant following his conviction on one count of rape as defined in s 65 of the code and one count of robbery as defined in s 126 of the code. In respect of the rape count, the appellant was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. He was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment on the robbery charge.
From the total of 24 years imprisonment the court a quo suspended 5 years leaving an effective 19 years imprisonment. The suspension was on the condition that the appellant does not commit an offence of a... More
The accused appeared before the Provincial Magistrate, Mbare Magistrate Court on 24 November, 2016. He was charged with the offence of culpable homicide as defined in s 49 (a) (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification & Reform Act), [Chapter 9.23]. More
The accused was convicted by the magistrate sitting at Kadoma for contravening s 70 (1) (a) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act, [Chapter 9:23]. Section 70 (1) (a) aforesaid creates the offence of having sexual intercourse with a young person. More
: This matter is an automatic review. The record was accompanied by a letter from the presiding magistrate who convicted the accused of contravening section 49 (a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act[Chapter 9:23] Culpable Homicide and contravening s 6(1)(a) of the Road Traffic Act [Chapter 13:11]. The learned magistrate in regard to the Culpable Homicide count indicates that he realized that he had made a mistake in that he had misinterpreted the sketch plan which placed the point of impact in accused’s lane as opposed to his finding that the point of impact was in the complainant’s... More
Criminality, particularly of the violent type, is often associated with daftness. That perception is however slowly proving less and less accurate. The sophistication with which some crimes are being committed in recent times smacks of the advent of an avant-garde criminal world. Investigators and prosecutors must keep abreast with such developments lest they are left struggling to link criminals to the crimes. In this case, a man doing everything to fend for his family was murdered in cold blood yet there was no one with a clue as to who had killed him. The suspects were remotely connected to the... More
