Judgements

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 […]

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 13 October 1964, we allowed the appeal in this case and reserved our reasons for so doing; the following are the reasons for our decision. The appellant

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT, CAPE COAST Date: 10 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: LASSEY J JUDGMENT OF LASSEY J Lassey J [stated the facts as set out in the headnote and continued:] With respect to the liability of the respondents to the appellant the evidence led at the trial was that after the settlement of the

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 6 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND BRUCE-LYLE JJSC JUDGMENT OF BRUCE-LYE JSC Bruce-Lyle JSC delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of Siriboe J. (as he then was) sitting in the High Court, Ho, and dismissing an appeal from the convictions by

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 6 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was tried by Sowah J. sitting with assessors. The indictment charged him with three counts, namely (1) forgery, (2) uttering a forged document and (3) stealing.

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 6 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal is against conviction of the appellant for murder upon a verdict of a jury. It raised some very important points of law. These have been forcefully

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 6 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: MILLS-ODOI, ACOLATSE AND BRUCE-LYLE JJ.S.C. JUDGMENT OF BRUCE-LYLE J.S.C. Bruce-Lyle J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from the judgment of Djabanor J. sitting with assessors at the Criminal Session of the High Court, Kumasi, delivered on 28 June 1963. The

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 6 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: OLLENNU, ACOLATSE AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was tried for, and convicted of the offence of manslaughter by the High Court, Cape Coast, sitting with a jury. When the appeal came up for

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 6 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: MILLS-ODOI, OLLENNU AND SIRIBOE JJSC JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU JSC Ollennu JSC delivered the judgment of the court. This is an appeal from a judgment of Acolatse J., as he then was, upholding the convictions of, and sentences passed upon the appellant by the District Magistrate,

Division: IN THE SUPREME COURT Date: 6 NOVEMBER 1964 Before: MILLS-ODOI, ACOLATSE AND BRUCE-LYLE JJSC JUDGMENT OF MILLS-ODOI JSC Mills-Odoi JSC delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was charged with the murder of one Salifu Dagarti and was convicted of this crime on 7 April 1964, at the Criminal Session of the High