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…officers found 15 rounds each, that his defence was rejected without sufficient or reasonable grounds, that the learned magistrate unjustifiably disallowed the evidence of his co-accused, which exonerated him, that the prosecution…

…In any event, the appellant was not charged with these suspects nor did circumstances require prosecution to call the suspects who may not have been charged with any offence unless there was a possibility raised that the…

…The quotation above relates to the U.K. whose Act of 1956, if it still operates, is longer and wider on subjects but apparently excluding criminal prosecutions.…

…It was incumbent on the prosecution to prove that such rights actually existed.…

…She however found that the prosecution had not proved this and it cannot be said that the accused persons were armed with a dangerous weapon.…

…The Magistrate erred and misdirected herself in both law and fact by failing to recognize the absence of an investigating officer in this case and the fact that in the absence of such an officer was fatal to the prosecution…

…The application was not opposed by the prosecution.…

…In this appeal he complains that his case was not investigated and was given no opportunity to question the prosecution witnesses and in effect he denies the charge against him.…

…The principal state counsel indicated to me at the hearing of the appeal that he does not support the conviction because of material contradiction in the evidence for the prosecution.…

…Their petitions of appeal, filed on the July 23, 1984, each contained lengthy grounds, but in particular attacked their respective identifications by the prosecution witnesses, upon which of course, their convictions mainly…

…At the end of the trial the prosecution had called ten (10) witnesses while the accused had been heard in his defence.…

…That closed the prosecution case. The defence one opened. The accused on oath told this court that he came to the shop of PW9 on duty at 7.00 P.M. on 1st July 1996.…