The Supreme Court will not interfere with concurrent findings of fact by two lower courts unless such findings are shown to be perverse, not supported by…

The words "accidental slip" mean a clerical mistake in a judgment or order; such error must be an error in expressing the manifest intention of the…

Where an error alleged by a point originates in the Court of Appeal as part of its decision, the appellant has a constitutional right to raise…

Arguments are to be canvassed on the basis of issues formulated, not on the grounds of appeal; while resolution of an issue may determine an appeal,…

An appellate court errs when it attributes grounds of appeal from one party to another and rejects the proper grounds. A decision based on wrongly attributed…

Proof beyond reasonable doubt is not attained by the number of witnesses fielded by the prosecution; it depends on the quality of the evidence. The testimony…

Where a person is accused of a capital offence, the State shall, if practicable, be represented by a legal practitioner, and if the accused is not…

For provocation to succeed as a defence, the provocation must come from the person who is killed or the person whom the accused intended to kill;…

The appellant, knowing fully well that he was being accused of the offence of murder, which is serious, the burden lay on him to arrange for…

Where a statute expressly provides that it shall come into operation on such a day as a designated authority may appoint by order published in the…

For a defendant to avail himself of the protection afforded by section 2 of the Public Officers Protection Law, he must, as a public officer, have…

A statute of limitation removes the right of action, the right of enforcement, the right to judicial relief and leaves the plaintiff with a bare and…