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…So it is the subordinate court which makes the reference under section 67 (1) of the Constitution of Kenya (the Constitution), not the party.…

…So one finds, as we see it, the issue narrowing itself down to one point namely: the subordinate court having not made a reference to the High Court, there could not be anything in the Constitution identified for interpretation…

…Even then, the 3rd defendant did not attempt to satisfy the Auctioneers Rules with regard to the condition of the proclaimed goods for it was only with reference to the attached motor vehicle that he indicated the value.…

…The former Court of Appeal for East Africa in Osongo and another v Republic , (1972) E A 170, 171 E and F, which was a reference to the full court, said that, it could not agree that if those words had not been used in the…

…The reference to a painful experience should, Mr Kitaitu argued, have alerted the magistrate to the coercion being brought to bear on the appellant, and appreciating what had happened, the magistrate should have changed the…

…References to the appellant’s career prospects, and the effect upon the appellant’s family if the appellant is imprisoned show that the appellant’s purpose was not to detract in any way from his plea of guilty but to persuade…

…As the trial proceeded, there were references to the assessors as being recalled though there was no record of the time and at what stage of the proceeding they were requested to leave the court.…

…No reference is made of it in the judgment. The trial judge ought to have considered it. Failure to consider the defence is contrary to natural justice and unsettles the judgment Okethi Okale v Republic [1965] EA 555.…

…We think the reference to a quarrel as an afterthought put forward for the reason we have stated, otherwise it would have formed a part of the appellant's statement which he made to the police on the day of the killing.…

…No reference as it laid in the overt acts that the Duty Officer was captured as such, it is laid in the first overt act that he was forced to surrender the keys to the safe where armoury keys were kept for safe custody and…

…1) (a)(iii) and (b) of the Penal Code as laid notwithstanding that we think and find that overt act 5(b) had not been sufficiently proved, but of course this makes no difference whatsoever to the conviction entered with reference…

…Be that as it may, a formal application for revision was duly filed by the Republic and the appellant in turn also filed a formal application seeking the setting aside of the ex-parte order to which we have made reference…

…Now it is argued before us that it is correct for the prosecutor in giving the facts of the alleged offence to include reference to other offences which are in some way connected with the alleged offence, which go to increase…

…The basis for its admission, so far as we can discover, is the reference by the third appellant in his disputed inquiry statement, Exhibit 49, that he used a spade, which he had brought with him from home for the purpose…

…And so we will now turn to the evidence against the particular accused as counsel have done before us: we shall use as a reference the very helpful and full written submissions of learned State Counsel but we shall start…

…Kapila took us through the statement of May 16, 1982, with particular reference to the passage we quoted earlier in this judgment, in an attempt to show that the second appellant was not confessing to the offence of murder…

…Okethi Okale v Republic [1965] EA 555, which was cited also in relation to other grounds of appeal, expresses the court’s view in similar terms (at page 559 with a reference to the fact that the deceased was not at the time…