Sentenced to 66 years in prison in 2014 for the murder of his neighbour, Abiola Eadie, whom he killed during a row over an injured game cock, Mark Assing has appealed his conviction for the capital offence.
The matter came up for hearing yesterday morning before acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justices of Appeal Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory at the Guyana Court of Appeal.
In his notice of appeal, he argues, among other things, that the judge who conducted his trial wrongly admitted hearsay evidence from a witness for the state that was more prejudicial than probative in his case, thus resulting in a substantial miscarriage of justice.
