Rex V. Kofi Mansu (1947) LJR-WACA
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 […]
Rex V. Wungari Lobi (1949) LJR-WACA
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 […]
Rex V. J. A. Kumi & Anor (1947) LJR-WACA
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 […]
Rex V. Amos Kanu (1949) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Amos Kanu (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Charge of fraudulent false accounting contrary to section 438of the Nigeria Criminal Code—Conviction for false accounting by public officercontrary to section 439—Criminal Procedure Ordinance, sections 146 (e) and179 (2). Section 179 (2) of the Nigeria Criminal Procedure Ordinance applies […]
Rex V. Lasisi Jinadu (1948) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Lasisi Jinadu (1948) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Autrefois acquit—Autrefois convict ‘OrderlyRoom dis-ciplinary proceedings against a police officer—Necessity for special plea—Essential elements for establishment of pleas of autrefois acquit and autrefoisconvict—Police Regulations. Proceedings against a police officer in a Police Orderly Room for an offence against discipline […]
Rex V. Edem Udo Inyang (1946) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Edem Udo Inyang (1946) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Murder—Defence of Insanity—Absence of Motive—Histor► and behaviourof accused before the crime—Statements made thereafter—Evidence—Mis-direction. Facts The appellant, on his trial for murder, pleaded insanity. The first statements which he made when charged were less coherent than those which he made […]
Rex V. Sunday Ijoma & Ors (1947) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Sunday Ijoma & Ors (1947) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law and Procedure—Amendment of information by trial Judge of his own motion—Addition of fresh counts—Nigeria Criminal ProcedureOrdinance, sections 162 and 163—Meaning of ” charge ” Joinder of offences. Facts The grounds of appeal are set out in […]
Rex V. Okriyi Igiri (1948) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Okriyi Igiri (1948) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Honticide–Provocation. Facts The appellant’s wife taunted him with incompetence and then spat in his face. The appellant immediately shot her. The trial Judge convicted the appellant of murder. Held On appeal, that the trial Judge should have considered the […]
Rex V. Enoch Falayi & Ors (1949) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Enoch Falayi & Ors (1949) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Murder—Evidence of accomplices—Corroboration by conductof accused on statement of co-accused implicating him being read to him. The following judgment was delivered: Verity, C.J. These are appeals by three persons convicted by Pollard, Ag. J., of the murder […]
Rex V. Ezeocha (1946) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Ezeocha (1946) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal Law—Manslaughter by negligence—Unlicensed person administeringinjections—Degree of negligence necessary to constitute manslaughter. If a person takes upon himself the responsibility of attending to a patient when he is not qualified for the purpose and uses a dangerous drug, he is bound […]