DOHA: A criminal Court of Appeals has reduced a convict’s jail term from seven years to one year in a case of attempt to murder.
A lower court had sentenced the convict to seven years in jail for attacking the victim with a butcher’s knife, Al Sharq reported. The convict challenged the verdict in the Court of Appeal.
Details of the case suggest that the victim had gone with two individuals to the house of the convict to resolve a minor issue caused by someone from his family.
Someone in the convict’s house had thrown stones into the house of the victim. As soon as the victim reached the house of the convict, the latter attacked him with a butcher’s knife, and the victim suffered injuries.
Since the upper court could not find any evidence that the convict intended to kill the victim, it reduced the jail term. The court also found that the duo did not have any enmity. So the court ruled that he could be held guilty of only assaulting a person and possessing a sharp weapon.
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