14 Aug 2024
1. ) ANGELA DEWI A/P GANAI SANNACY 2. ) VIJAYA A/L GANAI SANNACY
- Citation
- B-05(M)-430-09/2023 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
- Court
- M
- Case number
- B-05(M)-430-09/2023 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
The Court upheld convictions because the totality of circumstantial evidence—last seen together shortly before attack, motive and prior threats, appellant-two's direction to recover the blunt weapon and the deceased's chain, and forensic pathology confirming blunt-force head trauma sufficient in the ordinary course to cause death—made any other inference impossible; disclosures and pointing-out conduct were admissible under s.27/s.8 Evidence Act; unsworn denials were inadequate to raise reasonable doubt. The death sentences were commuted under the court's statutory discretion to fixed terms o…