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…APPELLANT AND DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ....................................…

…After reviewing the prosecution evidence, the trial court put the appellant on his defence.…

…For our purpose here, the main complaint against the prosecution is non-compliance with (c), namely, failure by the prosecution to include certain documents, or exhibits in the committal bundles.…

…There is in the bundle a list of prosecution witnesses the prosecution intends to rely on and their addresses. We have included a list of exhibits and these number 301.…

…The prosecution case was dependent on the evidence of PW1.…

…In the result, I am persuaded that the prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt that the accused beat the deceased for 20 minutes.…

…Firstly, on the basis of the charge being defective, yet neither the prosecution nor the court amended it.…

…Masila, Prosecution Counsel, relied on the grounds of opposition filed by the DPP’s Office.…

…This court is not unware of speculation circulating in the country and outside as to the likelihood of success of such a prosecution, but such speculation is totally irrelevant to these proceedings.…

…It is interesting to notice that in these application only one point of law has been argued to indicate that there is no likelihood of success of the prosecution, relating to the consent to prosecute.…

…Briefly the prosecution case was that on the 19.6.94 at about 1.30 p.m. 3 robbers struck at the home of the complainant JOHN KASIMILI and robbed him of his T.V. and radio cassette in the course of the robbery, those robbers…

…The rest of the evidence relied upon by the prosecution was largely based on the testimony of Asst. I.P Thompson Makala (PW14) of Tanzanian police force.…

…The rest of the evidence relied upon by the prosecution was largely based on the testimony of Asst. I.P Thompson Makala (PW14) of Tanzanian police force.…