ABEL SIBANDA

v

THE STATE

SUPREME COURT OF ZIMBABWE

GWAUNZA JA, PATEL JA & GUVAVA JA

BULAWAYO, NOVEMBER 26 & 27, 2013

Ms N Moyo, for the appellant

Ms N Ngwenya, for the respondent

GUVAVA JA: This is an automatic appeal against the conviction for murder with actual intent and sentence of death imposed by the High Court Bulawayo, sitting as a Circuit Court in Hwange on 23 November 2012.  The appellant was charged with the murder of the deceased, it being alleged that on 12 October 2011 and at Mabale grazing lands the appellant did wrongfully, unlawfully and intentionally kill Virginia Mukandla a female adult in her lifetime there being.