Criminal Procedure in Ghana case law.
135 passages under 14 sub-areas. Open a sub-area to read what the courts said, point by point.
Open in the Research toolAppeals
33 passages · 18 cases
- Appellate court's function where the jury was properly directed
- Appellate interference where another court might decide differently
- Burden on an appellant who alleges the verdict is against the weight of evidence
- Defect in the charge as a ground of appeal
- Deference to the trial judge on credibility of witnesses
- Effect of a concession by the Attorney-General
- Effect of a misdirection in the summing-up
- Effect of an appeal by one of several persons convicted together
- and 13 more points
Bail
10 passages · 1 case
- Constitutionality of the statutory bar on bail for listed offences
- Duty of the court on a bail application for a serious offence
- Grounds for granting or refusing bail
- Presumption of innocence and the right to be considered for bail
- Release for delay in trial under article 14(4)
- Whether a statute may permanently bar the court from considering bail
- Whether the refusal of bail is a judicial or an executive act
- Who decides whether a charge falls within the listed offences
Charges and indictments
13 passages · 6 cases
- Change of the charging provision without an amendment
- Conviction of a substituted offence not charged
- Duplicity
- Facts narrated by the prosecution as a substitute for particulars in the charge
- Intent to defraud as an essential particular of a charge of false pretences
- Omission from the charge of an ingredient that is of the essence of the offence
- Particulars of the essence of the offence distinguished from particulars giving reasonable information
- Particulars of the offence distinguished from evidence
- and 3 more points
Disclosure
4 passages · 2 cases
Retrial
2 passages · 1 case
Sentencing
16 passages · 7 cases
Submission of no case to answer
23 passages · 5 cases
- Calling on the accused to open his defence
- Effect of a ruling that a prima facie case is made out
- Findings of fact at the close of the prosecution case
- Function of the court at the close of the prosecution case
- Inference of guilt at the close of the prosecution case
- Meaning of a prima facie case
- Power to acquit at the close of the prosecution case
- Proof of every ingredient of the offence
- and 2 more points
Summons and warrants
2 passages · 1 case
Trial by jury
18 passages · 9 cases
- Directing the jury on a statement of one accused implicating another
- Directing the jury on intent in murder
- Directing the jury on justification or excuse
- Direction that intent to cause harm suffices for murder
- Duty of the judge in summing up
- Duty to warn an unrepresented accused about attacking prosecution witnesses
- Emphatic denial of the charge as an attack on prosecution witnesses
- Hearing argument on admissibility in the absence of the jury
- and 4 more points
Trial with assessors
9 passages · 3 cases
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