Lewke Kanagallege Lionel Wickramasinghe alias Gamini v. The Attorney General – CA 233/2014-2017

In the case between Lewke Kanagallege Lionel Wickramasinghe alias Gamini (Accused-Appellant) and the Attorney General, Sri Lanka (Complainant-Respondent), the court addressed whether the conviction and imposition of the death sentence for murder under Section 296 of the Penal Code was justified. The primary issue concerned the sufficiency of evidence to support the murder conviction, including consideration of whether extenuating circumstances or legal exceptions justified a lesser charge. It was determined that credible eyewitness and medical evidence established the intentional and unprovoked nature of the fatal stabbing, disallowing the application of exceptions or reduction to culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The legal principle reaffirmed that where no provocation or dispute