In Brief
A man was convicted of murdering his wife by the High Court after the trial court acquitted him. The wife was found with 17 knife wounds inside their home. The appellant claimed robbers killed her, but gave contradictory statements and no evidence of his own claimed injuries. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, holding that where a crime occurs within a home and the accused present offers a false or evasive explanation for injuries inflicted, this completes a chain of circumstantial evidence sufficient to prove guilt. The Court emphasized that courts must not demand impossible standards of proof in domestic crimes, where evidence is inherently limited.
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