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…APPELLANT VERSUS REPUBLIC……………RESPONDENT (Appeal from a conviction and sentence of the High Court of Kenya at Nakuru (Lady Justice R Nambuye) dated 26th November, 1992 in HC CR A No 387 of 1992) JUDGMENT The entire case for the prosecution…

…If the prosecution evidence is accepted then after the arrival of Wanjuki the events that happened constituted corruption.…

…It was the option of the prosecution with which offence to charge the appellant.…

…If the prosecution evidence is accepted then after the arrival of Wanjuki the events that happened constituted corruption.…

…It was the option of the prosecution with which offence to charge the appellant.…

…There was nothing wrong in the appellant having in his possession Kshs 18,000 and he did not have to explain how he came to be in possession of that sum of money, especially as the prosecution had not established that the…

…The prosecution never established the circumstances from which the conclusion of guilt could be drawn and in the absence of establishing such facts there could not be a hypothesis of guilt of the appellant.…

…The case for the prosecution was, in outline, as follows. The complainant, the appellant, his co-accused and other patrons were at Heshima Bar taking beer at the back room.…

…The second ground of appeal is that sufficient weight was not given to the appellant’s plea of guilty which had saved time of both the court and the prosecution.…

…That being the case, in the present case, on the basis of Section 28(b) of the Evidence Act, the material statements ought to have been excluded in the consideration whether or not the prosecution had proved the case against…

…Their petitions of appeal, filed on the July 23, 1984, each contained lengthy grounds, but in particular attacked their respective identifications by the prosecution witnesses, upon which of course, their convictions mainly…

…The appellant however has taken the prosecution witnesses to task. He has pointed out carefully some discrepancies in their evidence.…

…Their petitions of appeal, filed on the July 23, 1984, each contained lengthy grounds, but in particular attacked their respective identifications by the prosecution witnesses, upon which of course, their convictions mainly…

…who appeared for both appellants directed our attention to three matters: 1. whether the evidence of identification of the appellants was free from the possibility of error; 2. whether the discrepancies in the evidence of prosecution…