Choor Singh and Rajah J:

The next submission of Counsel for the defence was that there was no evidence that the accused inflicted the fatal wound with the intention of causing such injury as would in the ordinary course of nature cause death. To appreciate this submission it is necessary to look at the definition of murder as laid down in the Penal Code (Cap. 103, 1970 Edn.). The relevant sections are ss. 299 and 300:

299 Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, or with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that he is likely by such act to cause death, commits the offence of culpable homicide.

(300) Except in the cases hereinafter excepted culpable homicide is murder: -

(a) if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death; or

(b)if it is done with the intention of causing such bodily injury as the offender knows to be likely to cause the death of the person to whom the harm is caused; or

(c) if it is done with the intention of causing bodily injury to any person, and the bodily injury intended to be inflicted is sufficient in the ordinary course