Businessman appeals felonious wounding conviction

A Plantain Walk, Blairmont, West Bank Berbice (WBB) businessman, who had been found guilty of felonious wounding and sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment, has filed an appeal.
Dwayne Morgan, 44, was convicted in 2017 in connection with chopping his neighbour Randholl Bissondat, called “Katcha” of Lot B 18 Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice (WCB).
Morgan, who was initially indicted for attempt to commit murder, was instead convicted of the lesser offence of felonious wounding by a jury before Justice Jo Ann Barlow.
According to reports, on Tuesday, February 17, 2015, at Bath, WCB, the two businessmen were involved in an altercation during which Bissondat received several chops.
He was reportedly chopped to the head, left hand, and other parts of his body.
Following a Preliminary Inquiry (PI) at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court, the presiding Magistrate ruled that sufficient evidence had been led by the prosecution to put Morgan on trial for the crime. And accordingly, he was committed to stand trial at the Berbice Criminal Assizes.
Arguments in Morgan’s appeal will begin tomorrow at 09:30h at the Court of Appeal. (G1)