An accused person can be convicted on the basis of his confessional statement alone once shown to be free, voluntary, positive, direct and unequivocal, reason being that the strongest evidence establishing the guilt of an accused person is his own confession.
A person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission if, at the time of doing the act or making the omission, he is in such a state of mental disease or natural mental infirmity as to deprive him of capacity to understand what he is doing, or of capacity to control his actions, or of capacity to know that he ought not to do the act or make the omission.
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Businesses and individuals may now connect and do business electronically due to the advancement of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). However, this has raised a range of legal and regulatory issues for policymakers, from concerns about cybercrime and the ability to safeguard intellectual property rights online to the legitimacy of electronic means of contracting and…