[1] This appeal and Criminal Appeal No P-05(M)-186-05/2016 were heard together as they arose from the same criminal trial in the Penang High Court under Criminal Trial No 45B-33-11/2014. The appeals, therefore, were related whilst undeniably involving the same accused persons besides the same common core of facts and issues. We propose to give reasons for our decisions with respect to these appeals in one common judgment. We shall, in this judgment, refer to the appellant in this appeal as the first appellant and the appellant in appeal number 186 as the second appellant. Before proceeding further, we may necessarily mention that both appellants were convicted of an offence of murder under s 302 of the Penal Code and consequently sentenced to death by the High Court. The appeals before this Court were against the order of such conviction and sentence. We shall now set out the charge upon which