Needless to say that those concurrent findings and inference of grant made by the two lower courts which have not been dented by the appellants in…

Circumstantial evidence has been defined as any fact (sometimes called an 'evidentiary fact' 'factum probans' or fact relevant to the issue) from the existence of which…

Where strong circumstantial evidence is led against an accused person in a criminal trial and this gives rise to the drawing of a presumption or inference…

The law is firmly settled that a free and voluntary confession which is direct and positive and properly proved is sufficient to sustain a conviction without…

The following considerations have been laid down for the weight to be attached to a retracted confession: (i) Is there anything outside the confession which shows…

It has been held that an admission made at any time by a person charged with an offence (even before it was decided formally charge him…

In law, he is deemed to have fraudulently removed the air-conditioners with the intent permanently to deprive the owner of them.

Where, as in the present case, the evidence conclusively points at the accused as the perpetrator of the crime for which he is charged, and the…

Before circumstantial evidence can support a conviction the totality of the admitted evidence must be such as leaves no reasonable grounds for speculation which may lead…

Where an appeal is allowed because of the failure of the trial court to make findings on material issues and the determination of such material issues…

It cannot be over-emphasised that the evaluation of relevant and material evidence before the court and the ascription of probative value to such evidence are the…

This, generally speaking, is said to imply that the judgment of the trial court cannot be supported by the weight of the evidence adduced by the…