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Duke Mabaya Gwaka v Uganda (Criminal Appeal 59 of 2015) [2018] UGSC 8 (21 December 2018)
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# Duke Mabaya Gwaka v Uganda (Criminal Appeal 59 of 2015) [2018] UGSC 8 (21 December 2018)
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[Supreme Court of Uganda](/en/judgments/UGSC/)
Case number
Criminal Appeal 59 of 2015
Judges
[Katureebe, CJ](/en/judgments/all/?judges=Katureebe%2C%20CJ), [Mwangusya, JSC](/en/judgments/all/?judges=Mwangusya%2C%20JSC), [Mwondha, JSC](/en/judgments/all/?judges=Mwondha%2C%20JSC), [Nshimye, JSC](/en/judgments/all/?judges=Nshimye%2C%20JSC), [Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza, JSC](/en/judgments/all/?judges=Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza%2C%20JSC)
Judgment date
21 December 2018
* [21 December 2018](/en/akn/ug/judgment/ugsc/2018/8/eng@2018-12-21)
* [12 April 2018](/en/akn/ug/judgment/ugsc/2018/8/eng@2018-04-12)
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English
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The court held that there had been proper identification of the body of the deceased and the inference drawn by the trial court couldn’t be faulted. That the appellant had been properly identified and the identification factors had been favorable to rely on the available circumstantial evidence. That as the mitigation factors and the time spent on remand had been considered; the sentence at the time wasn’t illegal and would stand. Ekirikubinza Dissenting partially That the case of Rwabuganda should be allowed to apply retrospectively.
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