This record of proceedings was subject of scrutiny by the Acting Regional Magistrate, Northern Division, Marondera. The scrutinizing regional magistrate considered that the trial magistrate had misdirected himself in imposing sentence in that he imposed a fine which was way above the means of the accused and failed to consider and grant time to pay to the accused. The scrutinizing regional magistrate consequently referred the proceedings for review in terms of s 58(3)(b) of the Magistrate Court Act, [Chapter 7:10]. I should indicate that the accused has since served the sentence which was impugned by the scrutinizing regional magistrate. The... More
The Senior Regional Magistrate in Masvingo has referred this matter to the Registrar for guidance on the following facts.
The accused was duly convicted on his plea of guilty to three counts of contravening section 4(1) as read with section 3(1)(a) of the Domestic Violence Act [Chapter 5:16] for having assaulted his wife on three separate occasions. More
In this case, three accused persons all security guards in a company call Ex-Cop were charged with murder of one Edson Girazi,which occurred on 15 October 2014. The offence occurred in the course of their duties at a mine where the deceased,along with others, had been illegally mining gold. More
The accused pleaded not guilty to the murder of his 11 months old baby, Tabeth Rirwa (“Tabeth”) which occurred on 10 June 2016 at Maunze village, Headman Samanga, Honde Valley. He pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Anesu Ngorima, (“Anesu”) and admitted the he assaulted Phoebe Mandeya with a machete on the head intending to cause bodily harm during the course of the same assault. More
The accused killed his elder brother over access to food on 12 July 2015. Upon being charged of murder as defined in s 47 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Chapter 9:23] he admitted the charge of murder but as per procedure a plea of not guilty was recorded. More
