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Kwame Aboah V. The Queen (1953) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Stealing by treasurer—Defence of general deficiency Facts The appellant was a Native Authority Treasurer; he collected revenue and paid out salaries and the like. At a checking of his accounts there was a shortage in his cash of…
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Rex V. John Ogbuewu (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Murder—Evidence–Dying declarationtatement to Policeby accused made in one language and taken down in another—Admissibility-Evidence Ordinance, section 33 (a). For a dying declaratipn to be admissible in evidence, there must be proof that the deceased, when making it, believed himself…
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Rex V. Emmanuel Offei Alias Kwame (1948) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Procedure—Imputations on character of prosecution witnesses—Prosecuting counsel desiring to question accused as to previous conviction—Gold Coast Criminal Procedure Code, section 123. Facts Two prosecution witnesses were asked questions making imputations against their characters. Held It would have…
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Rex V. Johnson Nwokocha (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Manslaughter by negligence—Degree of negligence necessary—Lack of medical evidence as to cause of death—Necessity for medical or otherevidence to show death of deceased due to negligence of accused. On the facts of this case there was not sufficient evidence…
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Rex V. Akpan Inyang Nta & Ors (1946) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Criminal Procedure Ordinance, section 183—Previous and subsequent trials—Consequences supervening or not known at previous trial—Duplicity. Where, as in this case, the appellants were convicted of rescue, riot and serious assault, they were properly convicted also of…
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Rex V. Amadu Moshie (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Murder—Confession by accused in statement to Police—Argument as to admissibility in presence of jury—When jury should retire. A jury at a criminal trial is not required to retire during the hearing of argument on the admissibility of evidence unless…
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Rex V. Akpan Udo Modem & Anor (1947) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Murder–Conviction on evidence of one witness alone—Defence of Alibi—Appeliants notice at preliminary enquiry and in witnessbox during trial of intention to call witnesses —Appellants Counsel not callingwitnesses—No application by Counsel to call witnesses or for adjournment…
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Rex V. Kofi Mansu (1947) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law.and Procedure—Plea of Guilty in Error—Plea of Not Guiltyentered—Misdirection. Where an accused person pleads guilty by mistake and this plea may have been audible to jurors in waiting, the jury empanelled should be directed that, if they heard the…
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Rex V. Wungari Lobi (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Murder—Unworn evidence of child of tender years—GoldCoast Oaths Ordinance, section 17 (3)—Nece.ssity for corroboration—” Corro-boration “—Necessity for directi4n as to corroboration. The appellant was convicted of murder largely upon the unworn evidence of a child of about six years…
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Rex V. J. A. Kumi & Anor (1947) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Information containing four counts—Sentences on more thanone count—Gold Coast Criminal Code, section 83—False pretences—Gold CoastCriminal Code, sections 18 and 39. Section 83 of the Gold Coast Criminal Code empowers the imposition of concurrent sentences on each…