The appellant was convicted in a regional court of murdering the deceased following an altercation in a Rustenburg township. On appeal, the High Court set aside the murder conviction and substituted culpable homicide with a six-year sentence. The incident involved an argument after the deceased followed his wife from a friend’s house. After witnesses briefly left the scene, a violent encounter occurred between the appellant and the deceased. The appellant claimed he threw a small stone at the deceased while fleeing from him and acted in self-defence. The deceased died at the scene from severe head and abdominal injuries caused by blunt trauma. The appellant admitted the correctness of the post-mortem report but later argued on appeal that the State failed to prove that the injuries causing death were inflicted by him, given the absence of evidence about the integrity of the body between death and the post-mortem.