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…The appellant’s Memorandum of Appeal to this Court was filed in its Nakuru sub-registry on January 23rd 1984, (almost another two months lost there) and we are now hearing this appeal 6 months later.…

…The appellant’s Memorandum of Appeal does not limit itself to those two grounds, namely that the conviction is against the weight of the evidence or that the sentence is excessive.…

…Nothing was said about the sentence, but in the memorandum of appeal, the sentence was described as, unwarranted and excessive.…

…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.…

…appeal (including certified copies of the pleadings, proceedings, judgment, documentary exhibits in the court of the Bungoma District Magistrate, Kakamega Resident Magistrate and the High Court in Kakamega together with the memorandum…

…of appeal for this court), must be lodged in this Court’s subregistry in Kisumu with the appropriate security for costs within 90 days from today and a copy thereof served on Mr Dhanjal within 100 days from today.…

…amount less than the required fees, without security for costs being lodged, or on lodging of any specified sum less than the amount fixed by rule 104, and that he bears only the costs of preparing and binding the record and memorandum…

…of appeal.…

…Most of the twenty grounds in the unnecessarily lengthy memorandum of appeal state that the judge erred in not reaching a special finding that the appellant did the act charged but was insane at the time he did it under section…

…These formed the subject of the first and second grounds of the first appellant’s supplementary memorandum of appeal (which replaced the original joint memorandum of appeal) and we find it convenient to deal with them first…

…Kibuthu, on grounds 2 and 3 of his clients’ memorandum of appeal, that they were not.…

…The foregoing matters formed grounds 2 and 10(a) and (b) of the amended memorandum of appeal but they represented the bulk of Mr Prinja's argument.…

…Though it was not raised in Vijay’s Memorandum of Appeal or in argument, we feel bound to refer to the request for the assessors to remain in court during the trial within a trial held to determine the amdinissibility of…