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Ugiakha Vs. State (1984) CLR 2(a) (SC)
Judgement delivered on Febraury 16th 1984
Brief
Facts
For no apparent reason the appellant cut a girl of 10 years old with a matchet and she died as the result. The defence of the appellant was that he did not know what he was doing when he was cutting the girl but that when he realised what he had done he ran away. The learned trial judge in his judgment exhaustively considered the defence of insanity and from the evidence before him found the defence not proved. He convicted the appellant of murder. The Court of Appeal affirmed the conviction.
Issues
Whether the mere absence of evidence of a motive for a crime, is a...