10-mark question · Part C · Law of Evidence
Two sisters, S1 and S2, were staying in their house. X, the accused, who was S1's husband, came there shouting at S1 and attacked her for deserting him. She died on the spot. The other sister, S2, was the only eye witness to this gruesome murder. Before the trial of X commenced, S2 also died due to a disease in a hospital while undergoing treatment. However, while in hospital she clearly stated to the doctor how X killed her sister S1. The doctor recorded the statement and she signed it. This statement of S2 to the doctor is adduced in evidence in the murder trial of X. Decide the admissibility.
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2013
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- Law of Evidence · August/September 2013 (old) Mapped paper Download
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