Supreme Court · 2 November 2010

Ngosa v People (SCZ Judgement 30 of 2010) [2010] ZMSC 12 (2 November 2010)

Overwhelming circumstantial evidence and recent possession can sustain murder and aggravated robbery convictions even if a contested confession is excluded. Flynote Criminal law — Murder and aggravated robbery — Circumstantial evidence — Doctrine of recent possession — Confession/admissibility — Language dispute as general issue (no trial-within-a-trial required) — Conviction sustainable even without disputed confession. Read full summary

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