Judgements

 COURT OF APPEAL DATE: 2ND NOVEMBER, 1959. BEFORE: VAN LARE AG. C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. CASE REFERRED TO Kodilinye v. Odu (2 W.A.C.A. 336). ARGUMENT OF COUNSEL Baidoo for defendants (appellants). In discharging the onus of proof, which lay upon the plaintiff family, the latter relied solely on traditional evidence, and their […]

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

Division: IN THE HIGH COURT (LANDS DIVISION), CAPE COAST Date: 30TH OCTOBER, 1959. Before: ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J. JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J. (His lordship referred to the history of the case, examined the evidence of the plaintiff and his witnesses, and continued: -) From the foregoing examination of the evidence of the plaintiff and his two witnesses,

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

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

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

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

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

COURT OF APPEAL DATE: 28TH SEPTEMBER, 1959. BEFORE: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND OLLENNU J. ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL Tandoh for appellant (Mensah). The trial-Judge misdirected himself on the question of insane delusion, and on that of insanity generally. The actions of the accused suggest derangement of mind. The evidence of the