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…The appellants have been notified of the consequences before the hearing of this appeal. Francis Aganda appealed against both conviction and sentence.…

…They were originally five with William Adwera Oliech who died in the prison custody before the hearing of this case started on l6th December, 1991 and the State has withdrawn the case against him.…

…DEFENDANT RULING This case was on 24th February, 1989, posted to come for hearing with effect from 21st November, 1989, for four days.…

…The application was posted to come for hearing on the day the hearing of the suit was to commence. Consequently it became necessary to consider it before embarking on the hearing of the suit.…

…RESPONDENT RULING This is an application for stay of execution pending the hearing and determination of an intended appeal. It is made under O XLI rule 4 of the Civil Procedure Rules.…

…The main ground upon which the application has been based is that they were not served with a hearing notice informing them of the date of trial. This suit was fixed to come for a hearing on 2nd March, 1989.…

…Consequently it became necessary to issue and serve upon them a hearing notice.…

…Mr PL Otieno who appeared for the defendants in the application before me also submitted that no hearing notice was given to the 2nd defendants for the hearing on 9th December, 1987.…

…He refused to sign the hearing notice and attached to the return of service is a hearing notice which clearly informed the 2nd defendant that the case had been set for hearing on the 9th December, 1987 at 8.30 am.…

…The suit came for hearing on three different occasions, thereafter, but was on each occasion adjourned for one reason or another.…

…It was called and was listed to come for hearing on 9th and 10th May, 1989. On 9th May 1989 the suit was called.…

…Thereafter the suit became ripe for hearing but no date for that purpose appears to have been fixed.…

…That application was listed for hearing on April 14, 1983.…

…The appellant indicated that he waited to be present at the hearing of the appeal and an order was made for his production at the hearing. On the hearing date, the appellant was absent and unrepresented.…

…Thereafter the hearing was adjourned and it would appear from the record that Mr Mganga was unable to continue with the trial and the case was taken over by Mr Magolo, an Acting Resident Magistrate.…

…He first appears on record on 13th January 1988 when he fixed the hearing for 5th April 1988.…

…He has lodged an appeal to this court against conviction and sentence and now applies to be released on bail pending the hearing and determination of the appeal.…

…However, since I have seen that there not so many appeals in Mombasa, I cannot see why the hearing of this particular one should take long to dispose of.…

…Both the applications which had been served upon the Appellant’s advocate were fixed for hearing on 30th march 2006 before the Principal Magistrate who had jurisdiction in the matter.…

…Thereupon counsel for the Appellant walked out after his oral application for stay of the proceedings to enable him appeal against that order to proceed with the hearing of the applications was refused.…

…In making reference to Constitutional Petition No. 50 of 2020, he indicated that it came up for hearing on 28th July, 2020 before Judge E.…

…It was submitted that the lower court case came up for hearing on 29th July, 2020 but Mr.…

…Khaminwa, complained at the start of the hearing of the appeal that the record of appeal contains illegible pages which rendered the record of appeal incompetent. He relied on Rule 13 of the Rules of this Court. Mr.…

…This appeal to be listed for hearing during the next session in Mombasa. Dated and delivered at Mombasa this 26th day of July, 1995 J. M. GACHUHI ………………….. JUDGE OF APPEAL R. S. C. OMOLO …………………. JUDGE OF APPEAL A. A.…

…Khaminwa, complained at the start of the hearing of the appeal that the record of appeal contains illegible pages which rendered the record of appeal incompetent. He relied on Rule 13 of the Rules of this Court. Mr.…

…This appeal to be listed for hearing during the next session in Mombasa. Dated and delivered at Mombasa this 26th day of July, 1995 J. M. GACHUHI ………………….. JUDGE OF APPEAL R. S. C. OMOLO …………………. JUDGE OF APPEAL A. A.…

…On his second appeal to this Court, the appellant exhibited a curious reticence in lodging his memorandum of appeal, and over a year’s delay in the hearing was caused by an alleged hiatus between himself and his advocates…

…When the matter eventually came on for hearing he added to his grounds of appeal to the High Court that the learned Judge had failed to address his mind to the first petition of appeal, and the arguments advanced in support…

…On his second appeal to this Court, the appellant exhibited a curious reticence in lodging his memorandum of appeal, and over a year’s delay in the hearing was caused by an alleged hiatus between himself and his advocates…

…When the matter eventually came on for hearing he added to his grounds of appeal to the High Court that the learned Judge had failed to address his mind to the first petition of appeal, and the arguments advanced in support…

…The appellant filed a petition of appeal and during the hearing put in what he called submissions but which are in effect a repeat of the contents of the petition of appeal.…

…Upon our consideration of the proceedings in the two lower courts and hearing the submissions of the appellant we cannot find any such error. In the result this appeal is ordered to be dismissed with costs.…

…This is an after thought and although his appeal should correctly, have been admitted to hearing in view of that ground, no court would have accepted his belated explanation in the light of his unequivocal plea of guilty…

…No purpose would, therefore, be served by sending back this appeal to the High Court for admission for hearing.…

…When the two appellants’ appeals from the decision of Bhandari J came before this court for hearing it was disclosed that there was in existence a letter from Mr S K M Mwangi dated June 16, 1984 to the prison authorities…

…The advocate further stated that a memorandum of appeal had been filed and that a hearing date was due to be fixed by the High Court registry.…