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S v NCUBE & ANOR 2014 (2) ZLR 174 (S)

2014 (2) ZLR p174

Citation

2014 (2) ZLR 174 (S)

Case No

Judgment No. S-58-14

Court

Supreme Court, Bulawayo

Judge

Ziyambi JA, Garwe JA and Hlatshwayo JA

Heard

4, 6 and 8 May 2014; CAV

Judgment

30 July 2014

Counsel

N Donga, for the first appellant
R Ndlovu, for the second appellant
T Makoni, for the respondent

Case Type

Criminal appeal

Annotations

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Flynote

Criminal law – general principles – degrees of participation – accomplice – dissociation from common purpose – what steps accused must take before can be held to have dissociated himself from acts of principal perpetrator

Criminal law – defences – defence of the person or self defence – requirements – resisted attack must be unlawful – lawfulness of a citizen's arrest – right to exercise moderate force in making a citizen's arrest

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