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…MCCR/E.034 of 2020, pending the hearing and determination of this revision. 3) To make an order to call for and examine the record of the proceedings in the Chief Magistrate’s court at JKIANairobi in Criminal Case No.…

…Submissions that are common place in trials or hearing of appeals are undesirable.…

…The applicant seeks to stay the hearing of the R.Ms court criminal case number 2826 of 1985 against the applicant now pending before Ang’awa (Miss), senior resident magistrate Nairobi, until the hearing and disposal of an…

…XVI Rule 5 of the Civil Procedure Rules, on the ground that the plaintiff had since the close of the pleadings taken no steps in the matter to set down the suit for hearing.…

…XVI Rule 5 are restated:- “If within three months after: - (a) the close of the pleadings … the plaintiff does not set down the suit for hearing, the defendant may either set the suit down for hearing or apply for its dismissal…

…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.…

…Counsel further applied that the presiding judge do disqualify himself from hearing the renewed bail application as he had rejected the previous one and was thus looking to reach the same conclusion in the current one.…

…It was suggested in submission by counsel for the applicant that an applicant for bail under section 123(3) was entitled to trail his coat through every court and before every judge for fresh hearing. Held: 1.…

…Kiriba, Senior Resident Magistrate, in Criminal Case No. 2019 of 2001) JUDGMENT There are four appeals all consolidated for hearing. Criminal Appeal No. 417 of 2002 was filed by JACOB MATHENGE NJOGU.…

…The Complainant admitted during the hearing that he did not see Accused Four at the robbery. He said he immediately opened the door for them, they cut him on the head and he was forced to give them Ksh.6000/=.…

…We do not have any explanation for his nonattendance.That being the case, and there being no other counsel present and ready to represent the appellant, we are unable to proceed with the hearing of this appeal.…

…It is accordingly taken out of today's hearing list and stood over to an early date to be refixed at the Registry. Mr.…

…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.…

…When these appeals came up for hearing the first appellant told the court that he was satisfied with the conviction but asked for a reduction of the sentence.…

…He admitted he sped off but that was after hearing a gun shot and did not know at whom it was aimed. I have made an independent evaluation of the evidence.…

…It became plain to me during the hearing of this appeal, in the course of arguments by the learned counsel for the appellant, that the police officers who arrested the appellant and subsequently charged him with the offence…

…That report was produced in Court for the first time during the hearing of this appeal by counsel for the appellant to illustrate her point that the facts relied upon to constitute the offence did not disclose the offence…

…By notice of motion of the same date the appellant applied for leave to call additional evidence on the hearing of the appeal.…

…By consent, it was ordered that the appellant’s application to call additional evidence should be stood over to the hearing of the appeal itself when the application would be heard as a preliminary issue.…

…That pending the hearing and determination of the petition herewith, this Court be pleased to issue a conservatory order restraining the Respondents, their agents, servants, employees, or assignees from all further implementation…

…That to facilitate the expedient determination of this application and petition substantively, this court be pleased to issue an order of status quo prevailing at the time of ling pending the hearing and determination of…

…For reasons which we do not know, the appeal was not fixed for hearing until now, that is after a period of five years.…

…In these circumstances, it would not be in the interest of justice to direct the High Court to admit the appeal to hearing as this will undoubtedly cause a further delay.…

…When the applicant's application for the extension of time which had been filed in this Court on 22nd October, 1996 came up for hearing before the single judge of this Court, Bosire, Ag.…

…At the hearing of this reference on 18th December, 1996, Mr.…

…Section 361(1)(b) of the Criminal Procedure Code debars this Court from hearing his appeal against sentence. The appellant's appeal is therefore incompetent and the same is struck out.…

…The appellant appealed to the superior court against both conviction and sentence and also filed an application under section 358 of the Criminal Procedure Code for leave to adduce additional evidence at the hearing of the…

…When the appeal came for hearing in the superior court, Mr Chunga raised a preliminary objection based on section 348 of the Criminal Procedure Code, that the appeal against conviction was incompetent and should be struck…

…The appellant did not wish to be present during the hearing of this appeal.…

…Her failure to consider in her judgment the fact that the appellant had refunded the money, he allegedly unlawfully obtained long before the case came for a hearing did not in our view cause any prejudice to the appellant…

…A neighbour (PW 3), who came to the scene upon hearing the noises, saw the retreating figure of the appellant about 50 yards away. All these witnesses had known the appellant before the incident.…

…He testified that, upon hearing noises, he went out to the house of complainant who told him what had happened and he saw the appellant’s retreating figure 50 yards away by the lights of loco shed.…

…They then appealed to this court and it is sad to relate that they had each served the sentence imposed, by the time the appeals came on for hearing.…

…At the hearing of their second appeals, learned state counsel has conceded the appeals of Stephen Kaveta and Joseph Gichira out-right.…