Lawrence Simbe v The State
| Jurisdiction | Papua New Guinea |
| Citation | [1994] PNGLR 38 |
| Date | 02 March 1994 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
| Year | 1994 |
Supreme Court: Woods J, Konilio J, Sevua J
Judgment Delivered: 2 March 1994
1 Criminal law—sentencing—murder—provocation—range of sentences—each case must be decided on its facts
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By the Court: This is an appeal against the Sentence imposed by the National Court following a plea of guilty to murder. The facts before the National Court were that on 19 December 1991 the Appellant attacked the deceased with a bush knife and inflicted a substantial cut to the chest which in effect sectioned most of the ribs and caused his immediate death. The background to the killing was that the Appellant believed the deceased was trying to entice the appellant's wife into having some sexual liaison. The wife had told the Appellant about these advances. On the day in question the appellant followed the deceased to a garden area where the wife was working and upon seeing what he believed were signals to the wife trying to attract her attention and entice her he thereupon approached the deceased and chased him with a bush knife and chopped him and killed him.
In his evidence the appellant had said that he only wanted to put a mark on the deceased. The Trial Judge imposed a sentence of 14 years but deducted a total of 1 year for the time spent in custody and for the plea of guilty.
It has been submitted on behalf of the Appellant that the Trial Judge erred in that he failed to give sufficient consideration to the de facto provocation of the attempt to entice the wife and further that the sentence imposed was far outside the range of...
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