KOTA KINABALU: The Court of Appeal here adjourned to January 23 next year the case of a local labourer, who was convicted of murdering an elderly man five years ago.
Justice Datuk Linton Albert, who sat together with Justices Dato’ Anantham Kasinather and Dato’ Seri Zakaria Sam, unanimously deferred the case of Mohd Husin Abd Karim, 23, to enable him to find an assigned counsel to represent the appellant.
The High Court here had on April 8, 2011, sentenced Mohd Husin from Kampung Banjar, Keningau, to death for killing the 52-year-old man at the market ground in Keningau on May 10, 2009.
He was found guilty under Section 302 of the Penal Code which is punishable by the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.
Deputy public prosecutor Farah Ezlin acted for the respondent.