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…had convicted the appellant and was in the process of sentencing him and thereby declined to direct that the sentences imposed by him be served concurrently with those of the previous case and rendered the exercise of his discretion…

…in this appeal that failure to do so has embarrassed him and occasioned to him a miscarriage of justice as it had the effect of depriving him of the possibility of the trial court exercising in his favour the sentencing discretion…

…However as was said in the case of R v Mohamed Ali Jamal [1948] 15 EACE 126: “An appellate court should not interfere with the discretion exercised by a trial judge or a magistrate to sentence except in such cases, where…

…The trial magistrate used his discretion and this Court is not permitted to interfere with the acquittal of the 2nd accused.…

…As usual, however, this court will not interfere with the discretion of a trial judge in the matter of sentence unless it appears that in assessing it he acted on some wrong principle or did not act on some correct one or…

…However, the Applicant has not placed any discernable grounds which would enable this court exercise its discretion in his favour.…

…The Court must have judicial discretion to allow a change of plea before it has finally disposed of the case.…

…consolidated with Petition No. 16 of 2015 (the Muruatetu decision) in which the Supreme Court held that the mandatory death penalty as provided under Section 204 of the Penal Code is unconstitutional as it deprives the courts discretion…

…the Supreme Court in the Muruatetu decision to mandatory minimum sentences provided under the Sexual Offences Act and held that Section 8 of the Sexual Offences Act must be interpreted in a way that does not take away the discretion…

…First, the trial magistrate failed to use his judicial discretion and in doing so he denied in returning the suit motor vehicle to the applicant pending the hearing and determination of the trial in the Chief Magistrate’s…

…If no notice is given the judge would have a discretion whether or not to admit the evidence. Such a decision is only persuasive here in Kenya, but it is interesting to see the approach taken.…

…The appellate court will not ordinarily interfere with the discretion exercised by the lower court unless it is evident that the lower court has acted upon some wrong principle or overlooked some material factor, or the sentence…

…As for sentence, the court at the appeal stage can only interfere with the lower court's discretion as to sentence if it is shown that the lower court proceeded on a wrong principle or awarded too excessive sentence or too…

…Dealing with counts of conspiracy raises problems which require discretion and complete understanding of the case in hand.…

…The prosecution does have discretion of who to call as a witness. This was observed in the case of JULIUS KALEWA MUTUNGA V REPUBLIC which was cited by the court of appeal in the case of JWA VS REPUBLIC [2014] eKLR.…

…We are of the view that although the Act leaves a discretion in the Magistrate in such matters, in view of what we have said, we take the view that the discretion ought to be exercised in order to demonstrate that justice…

…There remains, however, even, if this practice is preached, as with other rules of practice, the discretion vested in the trial judge whether or not to admit the confession.…

…It is not improper to file an inforation containing two or more counts of murder, and it is within the discretion of the court to allow or disallow this.…

…Moving on the question of forfeiture, counsel for the appellants submitted that the order for forfeiture of 90 bags of maize was uncalled for, and the discretion of the Court in so making the order was injudiciously exercised…

…The Petitioner is thus disentitled from beneting from the discretion of the court as sought in the application. 4th Respondent’s Replying Adavit 11.…

…The Petitioner is thus disentitled from beneting from the discretion of the court as sought in the application. 4th Respondent’s Replying Adavit 11.…

…The Petitioner is thus disentitled from beneting from the discretion of the court as sought in the application. 4th Respondent’s Replying Adavit 11.…

…extract a confession by unfair methods that court may properly criticize the conduct of such police officer; and may where the court is of the view that the voluntary nature of the confession is tainted thereby exercise its discretion…