Uganda Case Law

Rex v Mamure (Cr. App. 177/1932.)

Rex v Mamure (Cr. App. 177/1932.) [1932] EACA 24 (1 January 1932)

Court

East African Court of Appeal

Case number

Cr. App. 177/1932.

Judge

Barth CJ, Law, Ag C.J. (Uganda), Thomas, J. (Kenya)

The Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa held that a wife married by native custom was a competent witness and that words alone did not reduce a deadly-weapon killing from murder to manslaughter.

• Admissibility Of Evidence
• Provocation In Homicide
• Native Customary Marriage
• Manslaughter Vs Murder
• Admissibility-of-evidence
• Provocation-in-homicide