22 Jan 2020
PENDAKWARAYA KAVINTHERAN A/L ARUMUGAM (NO. KAD PENGENALAN : 930610075239
- Citation
- PA-42S-17-07/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
- Court
- High Court
- Case number
- PA-42S-17-07/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
The conviction was unsafe because the trial judge failed to treat the change in the character of the charge as triggering the accused's statutory right under s.162 CPC to recall witnesses and wrongly treated a defense suggestion as a confession; these procedural and evidential misdirections occasioned a failure of justice and required acquittal.