Surakatu & Anor V. Buraimo Dende & Ors (1941) LJR-WACA
Surakatu & Anor V. Buraimo Dende & Ors (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Employment of legal practitioners in Appeals . under Protectorate Courts Ordinance 193.3 or the Native Courts Ordinance 1933— Section 49 ( 1) (a) of the Protectorate Courts Ordinance—Legal practitioners not allowed to appear. except in land […]
S. G. Acquah & Ors V. P. T. Acquah & Anor (1941) LJR-WACA
S. G. Acquah & Ors V. P. T. Acquah & Anor (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Trespass—Land held under native tenure—Suit subject to exclusive original jurisdiction of native tribunal—Family property and self-acquired individual property—Finding of native tribunal reversed by Appeal Court of Provincial Commissioner restored on this Appeal. Facts […]
Rex V. Yaw Tekyi (1941) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Yaw Tekyi (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Conviction of Murder—Interpretation of ” in the view of ” in Section 234 (3) of the Criminal Code—Murder commit tett on Appellant finding wife in circumstances suggesting recent act of adultery. Held : the words must be given their natural […]
Rex V. William Mbole Muambo (1941) LJR-WACA
Rex V. William Mbole Muambo (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Appellant charged summarily and plead guilty—Record shows Appellant did not intend to admit facts that would necessarily constitute guilt—Not Guilty pleas should hare been entered—Proceedings subsequent to plea a nullity. Held: Appeal allowed, conviction quashed. There is no need […]
Rex V. Tita Fokum (1941) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Tita Fokum (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Order of transfer made after conviction contra. Ordinance No. 8 of 1938—High Court proceedings a nullity. Held : Appeal allowed, conviction quashed. C. W. Reece for Crown. Appellant not present. The following joint judgment was delivered :— KINGDON, C.J., NIGERIA, […]
Rex V. Peter Ndeyee (1941) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Peter Ndeyee (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Conviction for manslaughter and for committing a reckless and APPSIIIIfran negligent act contra. sec. 343 (e) of Criminal Code—Same by High trial and same facts—Sentences to run consecutively. Held: Charges should have been treated as alternative and sentence quashed on […]
Rex V. Okebugwu Ogbonna (1941) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Okebugwu Ogbonna (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Criminal law—Offence of Cheating under section 421 of the Criminal Code. The facts established an offence of false pretences contra. section 419 of the Criminal Code: it was contended for the Crown that they also constitute an offence under section […]
Rex V. Modus Wray (1941) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Modus Wray (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Conviction for Manslaughter—Severity of Sentence of fifteen years imprisonment on simple instance of violence. Held : Too severe, sentence quashed and lesser sentence substituted. There is no need to set out the facts. E. S. Beoku Betts for Crown. S. […]
Rex V. Obi Bekum & Ors (1941) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Obi Bekum & Ors (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Robbery contra. section 402 of the Criminal. Code—Essentially dilerent from Robbery under English law—Necessity for corroboration of accomplice’s evidence—Corroboration required as to violence used and the purpose of it and that the crime was actually committed—Circumstantial evidence sufficient. […]
Rex V. Mensah Akoto (1941) LJR-WACA
Rex V. Mensah Akoto (1941) LawGlobal Hub Judgment Report – West African Court of Appeal Murder—Unsworn evidence of 2 infer pts of 3/4 andyearsrespectively—SPction 17 (3) of Cap. 206—Corroboration required and nature of corroboration necessary-;-111.-will of witness corroborating may render it insufficient—Other corroboration. Held : Jury properly directed, ample corroboration and appeal dismissed. There is […]