By Kyamanduma Patrick,
High Court at Kasese has adjourned to November 18th 2024, the ruling on No Case to answer after the defense counsel make submission by October 30th and Prosecution by November 4th 2024, over a murder case.
Court Presided over by Hon. Justice David Makumbi heard that in August 2020 while in Kithobira village in Kitholhu subcounty in Kasese district, Mr. Elias Masereka, Mr. Kikara Moses, Mr. Rabison Masereka, Mr. Yokonia Kule and Mr. Allan Mumbere, killed Dezi Kabugho in cold blood.
Court heard from a State witness yesterday that the accused stole the deceased’s pig and money first, left but returned to strangle to death Ms Kabugho on realizing that she could have identified them.
Speaking to our reporter shortly after Court session, the defense lawyer Counsel Racheal Serah from Justice Centre Uganda, said whereas the ruling on No Case for the Defendant to answer was being pursued, it doesn’t mean the end to the matter but a starting point to deal with the case legally. Counsel Rachael speaking……..
No case to answer is a term in the criminal law whereby a defendant seeks acquittal without having to present a defence, because of what he prays court to perceive as insufficiency of the prosecution’s case. END.