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…The Prosecution then proceeded to cross examine the witnessto show that he was unreliable.…

…Anyanzwa, submitted that the prosecution made no attempt to establish any motive for such dastardly offence.…

…The prosecution contended that the bandits paid the appellant for his services and the payment was in the form of some cattle.…

…On those facts the prosecution contended that the appellant consorted with the robbers.I agree with Mr. Metho, the learned Principal State Counsel, that those facts did not really constitute the charge of consorting.…

…He blamed the officer in charge Diani Police Station as having been instrumental in his arrest, beating and subsequent prosecution.…

…Having come to the foregoing conclusion, the tort of malicious prosecution must of necessity fail. There was justification for the arrest, detention and prosecution of the plaintiff.…

…In this case, however, the second magistrate did not himself see and hear all the prosecution witnesses even though he said that he carefully “observed” the evidence given by the prosecution witnesses.…

…But even on the evidence itself it was the duty of the prosecution to prove the charge against the two appellants beyond any reasonable doubt and on the evidence brought by the prosecution I think that the appellants ought…

…It was the prosecution case that at the material time being 1 pm of 12th December, 1989 PW 1 who was the herdsboy for all the animals charged as robbed from him, took the herd and flock of sheep to water.…

…In the ultimate this Court is left in enormous doubt as to the quality of the prosecution evidence against the appellant.…

…Out of the seven witnesses called by the Prosecution to provetheir case, only two were presented as eye witnesses to whattranspired on that fateful day.…

…The Prosecution says the heavy object was the hoe handle whichonly Maria, P.W.3 saw and said it was used. One week later shegave it to Pc Alugongo who produced it as an exhibit.…

…Out of the seven witnesses called by the Prosecution to provetheir case, only two were presented as eye witnesses to whattranspired on that fateful day.…

…The Prosecution says the heavy object was the hoe handle whichonly Maria, P.W.3 saw and said it was used. One week later shegave it to Pc Alugongo who produced it as an exhibit.…

…Firstly, on the basis of the charge being defective, yet neither the prosecution nor the court amended it.…

…Masila, Prosecution Counsel, relied on the grounds of opposition filed by the DPP’s Office.…

…The prosecution reproduced the facts which the appellant admitted as true. It was said that he had no previous convictions.…

…) The prosecutor reproducing the facts constituting the offence. iv) The accused being asked and admitting whether they are true or not. v) Recording the response and entering a plea of guilty on facts admitted. vi) The prosecution…

…By the application of the doctrine the burden shifts from the prosecution to the accused to explain his possession of the item complained about.…

…He can only be asked to explain his possession after the prosecution have proved certain basic facts.…

…His conviction cannot be sustained as the prosecution was conducted by unauthorised public prosecutor, namely, Police Constable Mutisya. Conviction is quashed and sentence of two years and 4 strokes is set aside.…

…No. 406 of 2001 deals with criminal prosecution and abuse of court process.…

…Elsewhere in the judgment (page 15) the judges had this to say: “A prosecution that is oppressive and vexatious is an abuse of court process.…

…He accepted the evidence adduced by the prosecution witnesses in full.…

…more important, to enable the accused to know the actual elements of the charge the prosecution is out to prove by the evidence it will be adducing.…

…However, the words of the appellant that he bought the shoes, the subject matter of the prosecution, from a market at Taita-Taveta, did not per se show the shoes were not uncustomed to his knowledge, and that he was an innocent…

…The circumstances under which he was arrested with them, and the fact that he admitted he was arrested as the prosecution alleged, clearly showed he had full knowledge of the offence he was charged with and knew what he was…

…It was alleged by the prosecution that he abused the complainant, an assistant chief of his area Mr Evan Nganga PW 1 and threatened to beat him.…

…We therefore find the evidence the evidence given by the prosecution witnesses to have compellingly established that the offence of robbery had been committed as charged; and upon the clear and credible evidence of the prosecution…

…Miss Njeru attacked the judgement on a broader argument on the grounds which I can summarise thus, that the prosecution did not prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, that she imported unproven matters into the judgement…

…He said the Burden on the prosecution was not shifted and he supported the reliance on circumstantial evidence by the Magistrate. He Claimed that Receipts were original under S. 65 (4) of the evidence Act.…

…Miss Njeru attacked the judgement on a broader argument on the grounds which I can summarise thus, that the prosecution did not prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, that she imported unproven matters into the judgement…

…He said the Burden on the prosecution was not shifted and he supported the reliance on circumstantial evidence by the Magistrate. He Claimed that Receipts were original under S. 65 (4) of the evidence Act.…

…In these circumstances the prosecution failed to establish that it was the appellant who broke into the complainant’s house and that he was in fact found in possession of the complainant’s stolen property.…