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Circumstances under which an act of an accused person may constitute murder

Criteria for determining whether a defendant had an intention to murder

Defences where a person is charged with murder and possible verdicts that could be returned

Effect of an accused admitting killing the deceased and raising the defence of accident or provocation

Factors to be considered in determining the degree of murder

How the intention to murder can be inferred

How the prosecution can prove intention to commit murder

Ingredients of the offence of murder

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Meaning of murder

Nature of intent required for murder

Nature of the offence of murder

The rule that the trial court must consider all possible defences open to the accused

Ways of proving the offence of murder

What the offence of murder entails

What the prosecution must prove in a charge of murder

what the prosecution must prove to succeed on the charge of murder

When a person will be guilty of murder

Whether a discrepancy in the date of death as stated on the charge sheet subtracts from the fact that the deceased died

Whether a dispute over the exact offensive weapon used can affect a conviction for murder

Whether a person is guilty of the offence of murder where there was no other intervening circumstance or event that could have led to the death of the deceased, other than the stab wounds

Whether a person who shoots at another is presumed to intend to murder that person

Whether an accused person may be convicted for the offence of murder even though the corpse of the deceased cannot be found

Whether an accused person will be held guilty of murder where he intends to kill a person but mistakenly killed the deceased

Whether an intent to kill must be proved to secure conviction for murder

Whether death resulting from unlawful harm intentionally caused is murder

Whether intention to murder can be inferred where the victim was attacked with a lethal weapon and died instantly

Whether it must be shown that the person who used violent measures really intended to cause the death of his victim

Whether killing of a person during a civil war amounts to murder

Whether medical evidence is required to convict for the offence of murder

Whether the deceased died immediately or few days later is an element to be proved

Whether the failure to tender in evidence the instrument used for committing the offence of murder is not fatal to the case of the prosecution

Whether the person who killed the deceased is relevant where it is shown that the accused persons formed a common intention to kill the deceased

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