Kudupitiya Arachchilage Wickremasinghe alias Chuti Ukkung vs. Hon. Attorney General – CA APPEAL NO. 304/2006-2014

In the case between Kudupitiya Arachchilage Wickremasinghe alias Chuti Ukkung (Accused-Appellant) and the Hon. Attorney General (Respondent), the court addressed whether the conviction and death sentence for murder should be upheld or altered, focusing on the legal distinction between murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder within the context of grave and sudden provocation under Section 297 of the Penal Code. It was held that, based on the existence of grave and sudden provocation, the proper conviction was for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The court reaffirmed the principle that grave and sudden provocation can reduce a murder charge to culpable homicide, drawing on statutory provisions and analysis of witness evidence, and ordered the sentence to be 10 years ri