likely consequence of the act or if any bodily
injury which the act was intended to cause.
By Section 221 of the Penal Code, the ingredients of the
offence of culpable homicide punishable with death
are:
a. That the death of a human being took place.
b. That such death was caused by the Defendant.
c. The act of the Defendant that caused the death
was done with the intention of causing death or
that the Defendant knew that death would be the
probable consequence of his act.”
The law is that all the ingredients must be proved or co
exist before a conviction could be secured. Failure to
establish any of the ingredients would result in an
acquittal. Once more, the onus is on the Prosecution
throughout and it does not shift.
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