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Amisi Dhatemwa alias waibi v Uganda [1978] UGSC 3

Citation: [1978] UGSC 3 Court: Supreme Court Decided: 8 August 1978 Jurisdiction: Uganda

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Murder conviction quashed where circumstantial evidence on the alleged murder weapon was inconclusive and the confession was wrongly admitted without a proper trial within a trial.

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