Ranil Chamara Jayasundara vs Hon. Attorney General – CA 250/2010-2013

In the case between Ranil Chamara Jayasundara (Appellant) and the Hon. Attorney General (Complainant-Respondent), the Court of Appeal addressed the issue of the commencement date for a sentence following a conviction for rape. It was held that, as the conviction itself was unchallenged, the proper course was to affirm both the conviction and the sentence as imposed by the High Court, including the stipulated beginning of the sentence from the date set by the trial court. This decision reaffirmed the principle that appellate intervention in sentencing must be grounded in a legal or factual error, which was absent in this instance. Reliance was placed on the original sentencing order, thereby upholding judicial consistency in the application of sentencing rules. The key takeaway is that, abs