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…There are, however, other aspects of the case for the prosecution which we must consider.…

…Inspector David Wangombe who investigated the murder also gave evidence for the prosecution which has some unusual features.…

…Criminal Law – false pretence – charge of procuring registration of land by false pretences - Penal Code (cap 63) section 320 - whether prosecution for the offence can be brought after lapse of a long time – section 219 Criminal…

…The appellant’s main ground of appeal was that neither the trial magistrate nor the learned first appellate judge gave any or adequate consideration to the discrepancies and conflicts in the evidence of the several prosecution…

…The learned Judge sat with three assessors and he heard all the eleven witnesses called by the prosecution in support of its case. After listening to the submissions of the appellant’s then advocate Mr.…

…No summing-up notes were available on the record and the incoming Judge deprived the appellant and of course himself of the opinion of the two assessors who had at least seen and heard the prosecution witnesses and the appellant…

…B.Ombewa) found that the prosecution had provided its case with sufficient and reliable evidence to convict the appellant with the offence of defilement.…

…which evidence did not prove the prosecution’s case beyond reasonable grounds; and in upholding a sentence which was excessive.…

…The trial magistrate after outlining the evidence of the prosecution witness as stated that he believed their evidence but gave no reason for believing it apart from saying that they had nor reason for lying.…

…It was after the trial magistrate had considered and decided on the prosecution evidence, that he rejected the defences as false, again without giving any reasons.…

…iii) of the Act provides as follows: “185(d)(iii) Any person who acquires, has in his possession, …, any goods which he knows, or ought reasonably to have known to be uncustomed goods, shall be guilty of an offence …” The prosecution…

…The two lower courts found that the appellant was in possession of the goods on his own admission, and the prosecution proved that the goods in question were dutiable.…

…The trial magistrate after outlining the evidence of the prosecution witness as stated that he believed their evidence but gave no reason for believing it apart from saying that they had nor reason for lying.…

…It was after the trial magistrate had considered and decided on the prosecution evidence, that he rejected the defences as false, again without giving any reasons.…

…This point, however has not been taken in the appellant’s memorandum of appeal, neither, in our view, could it be, as it did not form part of the prosecution case but was volunteered from the dock by the appellant.…

…He also submitted that the prosecution evidence as to where the children’s shoes, Exhibit 77, were found was contradictory.…

…He confirmed his plea by accepting as true the facts narrated by 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…

…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…

…Some of the prosecution witnesses who testied before the learned trial judge referred to it as a club while others called it a walking stick. The learned trial judge made no reference to its size in his judgment.…

…The result of the decision of the village elders in 1947 and that of the Lurambi Court and Ayub’s successful prosecution in 1958 for trespassing on the 1st respondent’s land was that as between Ayub and the 1st respondent…