Kuala Lampur, April 6 -- In the Singapore case of William Tan Cheng Eng v Public Prosecutor [1970] 2 MLJ 244, the accused was charged with the offence of murder in that he, "on or about the 8th day of December 1968, at about 4.45pm at Bedok Road near Jalan Bilal, Singapore, committed murder by causing the death of one Ahmad bin Yassin."

The offence of murder is defined in Section 300 read with Section 299 of the Penal Code of Singapore and these two provisions read as follows:

"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 hom...