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….………..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…

…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.…

…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.…

…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.…

…We are inclined to agree with Mr Otumba’s comments regarding the handwriting evidence.…

…However we are unable to agree with him that there was no evidence supporting that of the complainant.…

…There were some differences in the signatures on the petty cash vouchers allegedly signed by the appellant and the learned judge, in our view, quite properly accepted the evidence of Isidora M.J.…

…Romsalves who was at the time of giving evidence no more in the employment of K.G.G.C.U. She had no axe to grind and her evidence was credit-worthy.…

…The learned state counsel Miss Ndirangu concedes that the appeal should not have been summarily rejected and she further drew our attention to there being no evidence of an expert witness in relation to the count on forgery…

…Section 352(2) aforesaid provides: "(2) where an appeal is brought on the ground that the conviction is against the weight of the evidence, or that the sentence is excessive, and it appears to a judge that the evidence is…

…The appellant was represented in the lower court and made no effort to call medical evidence.…

…This statement was not tendered in evidence in the instant case and the learned magistrate had no right to consider it.…

…To attach a supporting affidavit to an application under rule 13(1)(a) would be to introduce evidence which is specifically barred by rule 13(2).…

…The judge thought that these matters should be left to be proved by evidence which would be brought during the trial.…

…It was apparently being contended that the appellant sold the item he took from PW.1, but there was no evidence from anyone that the appellant had sold any such thing to him.…

…The person owning the workshop from which PW.4 recovered the item was not called in Court to give evidence as to the circumstances under which the appellant had delivered the shaving machine arm to his workshop. As Mr.…

…The evidence which was accepted by the trial court was that the appellant attacked the complainant as he was walking home with his girlfriend shortly after midnight.…

…We have, like the trial and first appellate courts, analysed the evidence and are satisfied that the conditions in which the appellant was identified were most favourable and quite free from the possibility of error.…

…The evidence fully justified the conviction recorded against the appellant. He was convicted on sound evidence and his appeal against conviction must fail.…