Rex V. Osita Chukwigbo Agwuna & Ors (1949) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Osita Chukwigbo Agwuna & Ors (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Sedition—Setting aside subpoenas—Admissibility of evidenceof former seditious utterances—Nigeria Evidence Ordinance—Nigeria CriminalCode, section 8—What previous convictions should be taken into account when assessing sentence. Facts A person served with a subpoena has the right to apply to […]

Rex V. Ogba Agu (1949) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Ogba Agu (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Possession of materials for forging West African Currency Notes and of unfinished notes—Knowledge of accused that he had possession of such articles an essential ingredient of such offences. It is an essential ingredient of an offence contrary to section […]

Rex V. Nji Achie & Ors (1947) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Nji Achie & Ors (1947) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law and Procedure—Summary trial under Nigeria CriminalProcedure Ordinance, section 364—Applicability of Criminal ProcedureOrdinance, section 339—Joinder of charges—Criminal Procedure Ordinance,sections 156 to 161—Interpretatian thereof—Criminal Procedure Ordinance,section 338, Part X VIII and section 365–Applicability of section. 365-Duplicity—Nullity of proceedings. […]

Rex V. Zik’s Press Limited (1947) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Zik’s Press Limited (1947) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law and Procedure—Corporation—Conviction for seditious offence—Nigeria Criminal Code, section 51 (1) (c)—Criminal Procedure Ordinance,sections 340 (2) (b) and 363—English Criminal Justice Act, 1925, section 33—Criminal Procedure Ordinance, sections 77 and 72—Information signed byCrown Counsel—Criminal Procedure Ordinance, section 275—Constructionof […]

Rex V. Zik’s Press Limited & Ors (1947) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Zik’s Press Limited & Ors (1947) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—publishing a Seditious Publication—Nigeria Criminal Code,sections 51 (1) (c) and 52 (2)—Written consent of Attorney-General–CriminalProcedure—Nigeria Criminal Procedure Ordinance, section 72—Procedure on appeal by limited company. The following Joint Judgment was delivered: These are appeals by the […]

Rex V. Zenvinula & Ors (1946) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Zenvinula & Ors (1946) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Practice and Procedure—Irregularities in Proceedings at Trial—Trial declared a nullity—West African Court of Appeal Ordinance, section12 (5). Where such irregularities occur in a trial as, in the opinion of the Court, render the trial a nullity, the Court […]

Rex V. Robert Benjamin Wuta-ofei (1947) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Robert Benjamin Wuta-ofei (1947) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal LawCriminal Libel—Gold Coast Criminal Code, section 246 (2)-Innuendo–Inadequate consideration of meaning placed by appellant onwords complained of—Jurisdiction. The following judgment was delivered: Verity, C.J. This is an appeal from a conviction for libel contrary to section 246 (2) […]

Rex V. Thomas Torto & Ors (1946) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Thomas Torto & Ors (1946) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Evidence—Chance medley—Onus of proof. Where A deliberately provokes B in order that he, A, may have an excuse for killing B, should B attack A, A is guilty of murder. The burden of proof is on the […]

Rex V. Albert Stephen Tawiah & Ors (1949) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Albert Stephen Tawiah & Ors (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Arson—Criminal Procedure—Trial with assessors—Gold Coast Criminal Procedure Code, sections 276 and 286—Necessity for including the word ” intentionally ” in a charge under the Gold Coast Criminal Code, section 255—Gold Coast Criminal Procedure Code, sections 231, […]

Rex V. Richard Pepple & Anor (1949) LJR-WACA

Rex V. Richard Pepple & Anor (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law and Procedure—Original plea of not guilty withdrawn byaccused’s Counsel and plea of guilty substituted by Counsel—Nigeria CriminalProcedure Ordinance, sections 215 and 218—Necessity for accused to plead to the charge in person—Nullity of proceedings. Sections 215 and […]