Judgment[1988] KECA 3
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Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…All these grounds of appeal concerned the learned trial judge's failure to uphold the appellant's defences of intoxication, self-defence and provocation. In so doing, according to Mr.…
…Regarding the appellant's defence of intoxication, the learned trial judge correctly and quite properly directed his mind to the provisions of section 13 of the Penal Code.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Case
…of considerable tender years, in finding the appellant was not drunk so as to be incapable of forming the requisite specific intention for the offence of murder, in not affording the appellant mitigation on the ground of intoxication…
…He pointed out, again correctly, that as regards intoxication he had to be satisfied that the appellant was intoxicated through no fault of his own, to such an extent as to be temporarily insane.…