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…Following Tuwamoi v Uganda [1967] EA 84 the learned trial judge was aware of the standard of proof required and in particular that the confession statement must be corroborated in some material particular or by independent…

…one considers all the summing up of the learned judge prior to posing this question, one cannot come to any other conclusion that after having summoned up on the evidence and the issues involved in the trial and on the standard…

…of proof and who should discharge it, he properly put in a nutshell to the assessors the crucial question which they had to determine.…

…section 32(1) of the Evidence Act the evidential value of a confession by an accused person is that it can only be used as lending assurance to other evidence against the co-accused, evidence which narrowly falls short of…

…the standard of proof for a conviction.…