Judgements

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 4 DECEMBER 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was found guilty by a jury of the murder of his wife one Amma Dagarti; he was accordingly convicted, and the only sentence allowed by law […]

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, SEKONDI Date: 27 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: DJABANOR J JUDGMENT OF DJABANOR J On 4 September 1963 the deceased, Samuel Kojo Akyeampong and his friend Robert Yaw Eshun, were selling their wares not far from the workshops of the Sese State Farms Corporation on the pavement behind the drain at the

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, SEKONDI Date: 27 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: KORANTENG-ADDOW J JUDGMENT OF KORANTENG-ADDOW J This is an appeal from the decision of the Local Court of Sefwi-Wiawso which was delivered on 20 March 1964. The facts of the case are simple. The plaintiff is the chief of Enwhia, representing the stool of

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, KUMASI Date: 24 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: SOWAH J JUDGMENT OF SOWAH J The facts of this case are simple. The defendant is a customer of the plaintiff bank (hereinafter called the bank) and holds pass-book No. I.D. 88855 issued to him by the bank. The system by which savings accounts

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA Date: 23 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: APALOO JSC JUDGMENT OF APALOO JSC In this action, the plaintiff company are claiming from the defendant corporation the sum of £G10,227 which the plaintiffs say is due to Ghana Presec Limited from the defendants and which sum the plaintiffs claim has been validly

JUDGMENT OF BLAY J.S.C.  Blay J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of the Land Court, Cape Coast, presided over by S. A. Attoh, Esquire, Commissioner of Assize and Civil Pleas, as he then was, whereby he dismissed the plaintiff’s claim to have set aside the sale of

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA Date: 20 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: BOISON J JUDGMENT OF BOISON J The plaintiff by her writ of summons claimed the return of her goods wrongfully detained by the defendant and £G500 damages for wrongful detention or in the alternative, £G2,500 damages. The goods referred to in the statement of

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 20 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. On 10 November 1964 we allowed the appeal in this case, quashed the conviction and the sentence passed upon the appellant, and acquitted and discharged him. The following

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 20 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal against the conviction of the appellant for murder by the High Court, Tamale. The unfortunate incident resulted from an altercation between the first prosecution

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 20 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant gave evidence for the prosecution on 21 November 1963, in a case entitled State v. Fynn and Another,1 (hereinafter referred to as the substantive case). In