The accused is facing a charge of murder in contravention of section 47 (1) of the Criminal Code.The accused has pleaded guilty to the lessor charge of culpable homicide, which the state has accepted.
The common cause facts as laid out in a statement of agreed facts are that the accused was 37 at the time of the incident whilst the deceased was 46. Both were drinking beer at Chaza Business Centre in Mberengwa on 29 March 2018 at around 2140 hours. More
The accused was arraigned before the court on a charge of murder as defined in s 47 (1) (a) or (b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. The state alleges that on 19 June 2017 and at Headlands Hotel, the accused acting with common purpose and in concert with Tawanda Chiruka who at the time of trial was still at large, unlawfully caused the death of Winchester Karichi by supplying an okapi knife to Tawanda Chiruka during an altercation and the knife was used to stab Winchester Karichi in the lower left side of the stomach... More
The two accused persons are facing a charge of murder in terms of section 47 (1) of the Criminal Code. It was alleged that on 31 December 2017 at Chikato Business Centre in Shurugwi, the two accused persons together with others who are still at large, caused the death of Amos Washington Mawere by striking him with an iron bar, stones and machete on the head and right eye intending to kill him or realizing the real risk or possibility that their conduct may cause death but nonetheless continued to engage in that conduct despite the risk or possibility. More
The accused was arraigned before us charged with the crime of murder as defined in s 47 (1) (a) or (b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] in that on 15 October 2018 and at Armstone B. Resettlement, Chief Tandi, Rusape, the accused unlawfully caused the death of Taurai Christopher Makarutse by assaulting him all over the body with sticks intending to kill him or realising that there was a real risk or possibility that his conduct might cause death and continued to engage in that conduct despite the real risk or possibility resulting from which... More
The accused person faces a charge of murder. It being alleged that on the 5th of June 2017 he assaulted the deceased Dubabantu Sibelo by stabbing him on the forehead with an okapi knife resulting in the deceased later dying on 17 June 2017 from the injuries sustained in the assault. The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder but tendered a limited plea to a charge of culpable homicide. The state counsel accepted the limited plea and the parties drew a statement of agreed facts which was tendered and marked Exhibit 1. More
The two accused persons are charged with the crime of murder in contravention of section 47 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Chapter 9:23] in circumstances that would like be best described as “murder in the course of a robbery.”
The deceased was 39 at the time he met his death. He was a tenant at Block 80/2443 Mpopoma, Bulawayo. The first accused was 27 and resided at Block 24/809 Mpopoma, Bulawayo. Second accused was 29 years at the time of the murder. He resided at Block 80/2446 Mpopoma, Bulawayo. More
The accused who was 28 years old at the time the deceased met his death, is facing a charge of murder as defined in section 47 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23].The accused resided at house number 30549 Entumbane Township, Bulawayo whilst the deceased resided at house number 30098/6 Entumbane, Bulawayo.
It was the state case that on 26 July 2013 at around 0300 hours, the accused was drinking beer with a friend at house number 30187/26 Entumbane, Bulawayo where one Erika Sigauke operated a Sheeben. The deceased was also at the same shebeen in... More
