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…Reference was made to the three dates ie September 25, 26, and 27, 1976 whose evidence the judge bore in mind and which was not challenged by the plaintiff in his evidence.…

…The judge referred to the defendant’s evidence that the plaintiff stole from the defendant on September 18, 1976 and held that the evidence was not strictly admissible and added, “the court, therefore, disregards all evidence…

…If those pieces of evidence were taken away, Mr Prinja said, the rest of the evidence did not take the case any further.…

…In response to this evidence, the appellant made an unsworn statement.…

…There is no other evidence, direct or circumstancial, to corroborate the evidence of the complainant.…

…evidence can be safely accepted as true and free from the possibility of error.…

…There was no evidence that the counting was in James’ presence.…

…There was evidence that the lavatory was near a common path to and from the house of Philip.…

….………..RESPONDENT JUDGMENT The sole question of law in this appeal is whether the decision of the judge to invoke section 166(1) and (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code is warranted on the evidence.…

…Mr Aminga urged that that particular evidence was within the province of the defence and that if the defence had had the opportunity to lead medical evidence, the defence would have demonstrated that there were no chances…

…Evidence is not to be pleaded.…

…The previous driver who had the car since morning is unknown and as such did not give evidence. The evidence of the plaintiff has been corroborated by the two defence witness.…

…His conviction depended upon two strands of evidence; first, the identification by the sole evidence of the complainant, and secondly the appellant’s possession of a stolen car two days after the incident in the area of Nairobi…

…Whether that is possible, depends upon clear evidence of identification apart from the parade.…

…Grounds 1 and 5 of the appeal have expressed the appellant’s disbelief over the acceptance of the sole evidence of the complainant about the incident as against the appellant’s evidence (unsworn statement ) and his action…

…The evidence of the sole prosecution witnesses to the incident, that is the evidence of the complainant, was fully corroborated by that of the other four Tanzanians who had contributed to the sum that was brought by the complainant…

…As regards the evidence in support of the prosecution case the court below relied on the identification of the appellant by both PW 1 and PW 2.…

…The learned trial magistrate considered all the evidence before him and including the appellant’s defence and was satisfied on the basis of that evidence that it was the appellant who snatched the complainant’s property.…

…As regards the evidence in support of the prosecution case the court below relied on the identification of the appellant by both PW 1 and PW 2.…

…The learned trial magistrate considered all the evidence before him and including the appellant’s defence and was satisfied on the basis of that evidence that it was the appellant who snatched the complainant’s property.…

…On the issue of identification which is the real question for decision in this appeal, the evidence discloses that PW 1 was the only identifying witness as regards the first appellant Marie.…

…The trial court disregarded the evidence of identification.…

…Secondly, it is desirable that the court admits only evidence which is admissible in law, and what is admissible in a substantive offence and in a conspiracy may cause confusion.…

…The reason is that it renders admissible evidence of what one prisoner says in the absence of the others, because if they are all conspirators what one of them says in furtherance of the conspiracy could be admissible evidence…

…Of course apart from the evidence of the respondent, there were also the four medical reports to which we have already referred.…

…It is, however, not suggested in evidence that Dr Kokonya had no basis for starting the respondent on the drugs in the first place.…

…It cast doubt on the identification evidence against him. Hence, the case against him was not proved beyond reasonable doubt.…

…His evidence – in – chief having thus not been tested, cannot fairly be taken against the appellant.…

…There is no evidence that a copy of the report was sent to or read out to the appellant.…

…adduced by or on behalf of the plaintiff, it appears to the court that, if such an action were brought forthwith and the like evidence were adduced in that action, that evidence would in the absence of any evidence to the…

…His evidence would have to be carefully scrutinized. He said he was outside, he called it the Murangi Town Hotel bar, at 5.00 am on the 10th/11th.…

…No rule of natural justice, no rule of statutory protection, no rule of evidence, and no rule of common sense is to be sacrificed, violated or abandoned when it comes to protecting the liberty of the subject.…

…He made no further mention of any alibi in his evidence. Halima was called to testify for the prosecution. She was declared a hostile witness.…

…John Maina however did not say in his evidence that the appellant spoke these words “toka inje”- when the robbery was committed.…

…The evidence of the search and finding of the drugs was given by three Administration Policemen (APC Edward Kiengo (P.W.1), APC Peter Kahome (P.W.2) and APC Kilei Mbogo (P.W.4).…

…There is no evidence sufficient to raise any presumption of possession against the appellants.” This is a judgment of this Court and we are bound as usual to accord it utmost respect.…

…Thus the case for the AFC proceeded on a wholly false premise, one which, indeed, was belied by their own evidence.…

…The learned trial judge clearly misapprehended various aspects of the evidence before him and consequently made wrong findings thereon.…