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Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…To this extent that sentence was unlawful and this gives us jurisdiction to deal with the matter. We therefore set aside the strokes imposed for housebreaking in Criminal Case NO 989/88.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…He has appealed against the sentence only and he says this is because the unlawful killing was accidental as it was due to the quantity of the alcohol he had consumed; he pleaded guilty; the offence arose out of a family…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…In so far as the sentence passed on the appellant did not include an order for hard labour as required by Section 278 of the Penal Code it is unlawful.…
Division and case type: CriminalMiscellaneous Criminal Application
…against John Opiyo Arunga on 19th November 1991 requiring the said John Opiyo Arunga to execute a bond of Shs 20,000/- with a surety to keep peace for six months was not only against the rule of natural justice but was also unlawful…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The appellant’s story was that although he was at the scene, they in fact arrested a person in unlawful possession of gold. They had a tip off from a small boy about this.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Case
…Manslaughter is committed where a person by an unlawful act or omission causes the death of another person without having formed an intention to kill that other person.…
…An assault is the unlawful laying of hand on another person. It is the doing of a corporal hurt to another. There is evidence that the accused persons beat the deceased in this case.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…His conclusion therefore was that this assault was unlawful and relying on section 206(b) of the Penal Code he held that the said assault was carried out by the appellant with malice aforethought, the result of which was…
…The possibility therefore that the appellant killed the deceased by a sustained unlawful assault but without the intent necessary to constitute legal malice requisite to the proof of the oence of murder contrary to section…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Case
…Commonintention is when two or more persons form a common intention toprosecute an unlawful purpose in conjunction with one another andin the prosecution of such purpose an offence is committed of suchnature that its commission…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Case
…Commonintention is when two or more persons form a common intention toprosecute an unlawful purpose in conjunction with one another andin the prosecution of such purpose an offence is committed of suchnature that its commission…