Dona Dharmaratna Manike vs. Attorney General – sllr 2015 volume 1 page 064

In the case between Dona Dharmaratna Manike (Accused Appellant) and the Attorney General, the court addressed the issue of whether the accused, convicted for murder after throwing acid at the deceased, should have been convicted of a lesser charge due to evidence of cumulative provocation and lack of intent to kill. It was held that the conviction for murder was erroneous and should be substituted with a conviction for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the Penal Code. The principle was reaffirmed that, where intent to kill and requisite knowledge of likely fatality are not conclusively established, and actions occur under provocation, the appropriate charge is culpable homicide not amounting to murder. This decision relied on the interpretation of Sections 293, 294, 296, and