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…out of time in an intended appeal from a Judgment of the High Court of Kenya at Mombasa (Mr Justice Shields ) dated 31st August, 1990 in HCCC No 934 of 1979) Civil Practice and Procedure – dismissal of suit for want of prosecution…

…– whether court has power to set aside order dismissing suit for want of prosecution – order XVI rule 6 Civil Procedure Rules.…

…The prosecution contended that the bandits paid the appellant for his services and the payment was in the form of some cattle.…

…On those facts the prosecution contended that the appellant consorted with the robbers.I agree with Mr. Metho, the learned Principal State Counsel, that those facts did not really constitute the charge of consorting.…

…The grounds of appeal are briefly that the judge erred in confirming the conviction when the RM in his judgment had evaluated the evidence for the prosecution in isolation and failed to consider the unsworn statement, also…

…Thus the judge accepted the prosecution’s case and proceeded to dismiss the appeal. That is worse than commission of the error of looking separately at the case for the prosecution and the case for defence.…

…The prosecution claimed that they had robbed one John Bwana Opundo of cash Kshs 6000. According to the prosecution, the complainant arrived from Bondo with a view to do some shopping in Kisumu. He has a shop there.…

…He held that the prosecution’s version of the matter was the side of truth and that the appellant and his confederates indeed robbed the complainant of his money.…

…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.…

…In any case where an indictment contains substantive counts and a related conspiracy count, the judge should require the prosecution to justify the joinder, or failing justification, to elect whether to proceed on the substantive…

…The magistrate in that case had called upon the prosecution to justify or elect. That is the order that should have been made in this case.…

…In these circumstances the prosecution failed to establish that it was the appellant who broke into the complainant’s house and that he was in fact found in possession of the complainant’s stolen property.…

…Mr Owour also submitted that the identification of the applicants was based on the evidence of only one witness and that other persons who might have given material evidence were not called by the prosecution but that Court…

…The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Vol II) offers several definitions of ‘suit’, one of which is: “pursuit, prosecution, legal process.”…

…This Court has, in several cases dealing with customary law in criminal cases, decided that where the prosecution relies on a local custom then that local custom must be proved by witnesses called by the prosecution, and…