Roger Jumbo and Aidan Awatan v The State [1998] PNGLR 197
| Jurisdiction | Papua New Guinea |
| Citation | [1998] PNGLR 197 |
| Date | 26 March 1997 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
| Year | 1998 |
Full Title: Roger Jumbo and Aidan Awatan v The State [1998] PNGLR 197
Supreme Court: Amet CJ, Salika J
Judgment Delivered: 26 March 1997
1 Mitigating factor—Belief in sorcery as settled law—Response to cultural phenomenon—If opposed court is required to enable accused opportunity to lead evidence
2 Principles in favour of accused—within bounds of reasonable probability
3 Evidence—Failure to enable and rejection of evidence is error—Miscarriage of exercise of discretion
4 Sentence—Manifestly excessive in the circumstances
5 Acting Public Prosecutor v Uname Aumane [1980] PNGLR 510 and Kwayawako v The State [1990] PNGLR 6 referred to
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By the Court: This is an application for leave to appeal and the appeal by the Appellants against sentences of 15 years imprisonment with hard labour imposed on each of them by the National Court. They pleaded guilty upon indictment charging them with one count of wilful murder.
The ground for the application for leave and the appeal is that the sentences imposed were and are in the circumstances manifestly excessive, in that the learned trial judge made certain identifiable errors that affected the exercise of his discretion on sentence.
The facts
When the State presented the indictment and the brief facts for the purposes of arraignment, it was conceded that the motive for the killing was their belief in sorcery. It was conceded as an assumption of fact that the Appellant...
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