10 Apr 1985
SANNAD MANUELA L v. THE QUEEN
- Citation
- SANNAD MANUELA L v. THE QUEEN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA239/1985
The convictions were quashed because the prosecution failed to establish the essential elements of the offences charged (bigamy and false statement) — notably absence of particulars, absence of expert evidence as to validity and subsistence of the first foreign marriage, and lack of mens rea — and the prosecution should not have been permitted to proceed; the magistrate erred in convicting on the available evidence.