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….…….RESPONDENT JUDGEMENT This is an appeal against the summary rejection of the appellant’s first appeal to the High Court under section 352 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code.…

…Thus, as the learned High Court judge said on first appeal the wrong section was quoted in the charge.…

…On first appeal, the sentence was thought lawful, save that it was lucky that the appellant had not been awarded labour or police supervision.…

…APPEAL NO. 402 OF 1985) ********************* JUDGMENT OF THE COURT: The appellant's first appeal to the High Court of Kenya at Mombasa was summarily rejected by Aragon, J. under Section 352(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code…

…The prison sentence of ten years on a first offender looks to us to be extremely severe and we are somewhat disturbed that the learned first appeal judge did not find it fit to interfere.…

…The appellant’s complaint that he appeared at the identification parade while handcuffed was a live issue both at his trial and on his first appeal. Neither of the two courts below dealt with it satisfactorily.…

…Her first appeal to the superior court was dismissed. She now comes to us on second appeal.…

…facts of it, we are not presently concerned with the circumstances of the offence or of the appellants’ substantive appeals from their convictions thereof, but only with their appeals from the judge’s refusal to admit their first…

…appeal out of time.…

…Hestressed that some vital witnesses did not give evidence when the case washeard in 1979 before Resident Magistrate or at first appeal in 1985 in the HighCourt Eldoret. I am not hearing the Review application.…

…This being the first appeal, I have the duty to re-evaluate the evidence before the trial court while bearing in mind that this court has neither seen or heard the witness and therefore give due allowance for that.…

…Hestressed that some vital witnesses did not give evidence when the case washeard in 1979 before Resident Magistrate or at first appeal in 1985 in the HighCourt Eldoret. I am not hearing the Review application.…

…On their first appeal to the superior court, that court held that sufficient evidence had been tendered at their trial but purporting to follow the decision of this Court in Johana Ndungu v. Republic, Cr. A.…

…On their first appeal to the superior court, that court held that sufficient evidence had been tendered at their trial but purporting to follow the decision of this Court in Johana Ndungu v. Republic, Cr. A.…

…His first appeal against conviction and sentence was dismissed by Mbaya, J and he has now appealed to this court.…