Full Length Cases from the Courts
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 2ND NOVEMBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE AG. C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. JUDGMENT OF VAN LARE AG. CJ. On the 27th October, 1959 we allowed this appeal from a judgment of the Judge of the Land Court, Sekondi, by which he set aside a decision in […]
ABAKAM EFFIANA FAMILY & ORS. v. MBIBADO EFFIANA FAMILY & ORS. [1959] GLR 362 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 27TH OCTOBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU J. This is an appeal by the defendant, with a cross-appeal by the plaintiff, from the judgment of a Commissioner of Assize and Civil Pleas, delivered in Accra on the
ASUMAH v. KHAIR [1959] GLR 353 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 5TH OCTOBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. Homicide—Accused runs amok—Living in a world of his own—Proper interpretation of sec. 52(2) of the Criminal Code—Guilty but insane. HEADNOTES On the morning of the 23rd December, 1958, for no reason which could
R. v. MOSHIE [1959] GLR 343 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 5TH OCTOBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. In this case of homicide, tried on indictment for murder, the prosecution had no evidence concerning the circumstances of the killing save for the deposition of a companion of the deceased, and for
R. v. KUSASI & ORS. [1959] GLR 332 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 5TH OCTOBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. Homicide—Provocation—”an ordinary person of the community to which the accused belongs”—Considerations to be examined in judicial summing-up. HEADNOTES Kofi Atta did not at any time deny that he had killed his wife, Adjoa
R. v. ATTA [1959] GLR 337 Read More »
Division: IN THE HIGH COURT (LANDS DIVISION), ACCRA Date: 29TH SEPTEMBER, 1959. Before: OLLENNU J. JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU J. (His lordship stated the history of the matter, and continued:-) The evidence led by the plaintiff and his witnesses was that about 200 years ago, while the Krobos were still living on the Krobo Hill, his
NGMATI v. ADETSIA & ORS. [1959] GLR 323 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 28TH SEPTEMBER, 1959 Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. Murder—Gunshot wounds—Inadequacy of hospital treatment no defence to killer unless itself criminal. HEADNOTES Early in the morning of the 16th December, 1958 Victus Atta Kofi and his son Kojo Botwe were returning from
R v. BASARE [1959] GLR 321 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 28TH SEPTEMBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. HEADNOTES In 1957 one Kwabena Bonsu caused a solicitor to prepare a Will for him. Bonsu expressed a desire that Seth Tabi and Kwabena Anyimadu should be the attesting witnesses; but these
R. v. JACOB K. MENSAH [1959] GLR 314 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 28TH SEPTEMBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRUNVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. Gyelego Grumah was behaving so abnormally in his town that he came to be regarded as an insane person, and was in consequence taken by his landlord to a native medicine man for
R. v. GRUMAH [1959] GLR 307 Read More »
Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 28TH SEPTEMBER, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. JUDGMENT OF GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. This appellant was convicted by a jury before Simpson J., sitting at Accra on the 23rd April, 1959, for the murder of one Kwabena Ahunu at Okrakwadjo on
R v. KWADWO MENSAH [1959] GLR 309 Read More »
