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…All the accused persons gave unsworn evidence and called no witnesses. The sum total of their evidence is that PW8 was a businessman who was buying and selling maize at Simatwet.…

…The other evidence on the record is evidence from police officers. PW3 received exhibits in a carton to take to the government chemist which he did using exhibit memo form.…

…That medical evidence talks of beating in general yet from the evidence the deceased was beaten several times.…

…evidence of Crispo, Phillemon and Charles.…

…by the evidence of Matundura and Malika.…

…The trial court had accepted the evidence of the complainant, his mother and his brother, and despite the discrepancies as to time and place, there was evidence to support that decision.…

…What we must consider however, is whether the absence of his evidence adversely affects the evidence of the other eyewitnesses as proof beyond reasonable doubt of the offence with which the appellant was charged.…

…With respect to the lack of ballistic evidence connecting the shot alleged to have been fired by the appellant which caused the death of the deceased, there is the uncontroverted medical evidence that the deceased died of…

…There was a number of defects in the evidence in the trial. There was no evidence, for instance of robbery as defined in Section 296(1) of the Penal Code on count two.…

…that the evidence is reliable, then after paying attention to the warning, he may nevertheless convict.…

…The trial court warned himself of the danger of convicting the appellant on uncorroborated evidence of a child but found that from the evidence on record there was no reasonable doubt that it was the appellant who defiled…

…to the prejudice of the appellant; in failing to sufficiently appraise the evidence of the trial court as was bound to as a first appellate court; in upholding a conviction that was founded on evidence by the prosecution…

…There was no evidence that the counting was in James’ presence.…

…There was evidence that the lavatory was near a common path to and from the house of Philip.…

….………..RESPONDENT JUDGMENT The sole question of law in this appeal is whether the decision of the judge to invoke section 166(1) and (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code is warranted on the evidence.…

…Mr Aminga urged that that particular evidence was within the province of the defence and that if the defence had had the opportunity to lead medical evidence, the defence would have demonstrated that there were no chances…

…His conviction depended upon two strands of evidence; first, the identification by the sole evidence of the complainant, and secondly the appellant’s possession of a stolen car two days after the incident in the area of Nairobi…

…Whether that is possible, depends upon clear evidence of identification apart from the parade.…

…There is therefore absolutely no evidence or prima facie evidence linking the 2nd accused to the death of the deceased. In the circumstances he cannot be called upon to defend himself.…

…All the police officers who testified in this trial did not confirm the evidence that they were given the description of the attackers.…

…There was a number of defects in the evidence in the trial. There was no evidence, for instance of robbery as defined in Section 296(1) of the Penal Code on count two.…

…that the evidence is reliable, then after paying attention to the warning, he may nevertheless convict.…

…The Land Registrar, PW 3, gave evidence from his records.…

…We cannot detect any serious conflict between those two portions of the evidence.…

…As regards the evidence in support of the prosecution case the court below relied on the identification of the appellant by both PW 1 and PW 2.…

…The learned trial magistrate considered all the evidence before him and including the appellant’s defence and was satisfied on the basis of that evidence that it was the appellant who snatched the complainant’s property.…

…As regards the evidence in support of the prosecution case the court below relied on the identification of the appellant by both PW 1 and PW 2.…

…The learned trial magistrate considered all the evidence before him and including the appellant’s defence and was satisfied on the basis of that evidence that it was the appellant who snatched the complainant’s property.…

…In fact even where one accused gives evidence on oath such evidence must be regarded with extreme caution when it is to be used against a co-accused.…

…Nevertheless, the evidence against the appellant was overwhelming and when the second accused’s evidence is disregarded he still was correctly convicted on the evidence of recent possession of recently stolen properties and…

…The issue of law of this second appeal is whether there was evidence to prove the several charges. 2.…

…The point was made that there is evidence of false documentation. 8. Evidence was given by Kimani (PW1) that on 21st December, 1987 he allowed vehicle registration mark KWR 463 to enter the silos at Nakuru.…

…On the issue of identification which is the real question for decision in this appeal, the evidence discloses that PW 1 was the only identifying witness as regards the first appellant Marie.…

…The trial court disregarded the evidence of identification.…

…However, the evidence he has adduced in support of his claim falls short of the required standard to warrant the grant of the orders sought.”…

…As far as grounds No 2 & 3 summed up above are concerned, these relate to matters of evidence.…

…Secondly, it is desirable that the court admits only evidence which is admissible in law, and what is admissible in a substantive offence and in a conspiracy may cause confusion.…

…The reason is that it renders admissible evidence of what one prisoner says in the absence of the others, because if they are all conspirators what one of them says in furtherance of the conspiracy could be admissible evidence…