Division: IN THE COURT OF APPEAL Date: 29TH MAY, 1959. Before: VAN LARE J.A. AS C.J., GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. AND ACOLATSE J. JUDGMENT OF GRANVILLE SHARP J.A. Granville Sharp J.A., delivered the judgment of the Court: (His lordship stated the facts, and proceeded:—) Whatever may be the fact as to the purchase of cloth, it […]
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Three persons accused of stealing metals worth GHC100,000 at a warehouse at Odorkor in Accra have been acquitted and discharged by the Dansoman Circuit Court. The three accused persons are: Desmond Nartey, 18, Seth Kwakye Boafo, 21, and Sule Musah, 55. The three accused persons were freed by the court after their counsels led by
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Mr Moro Musah, a 33-year-old farmer, has been apprehended by the Tumu Police for allegedly stealing cattle in October 2023 at Kroboi in the Sissala East Municipality of the Upper West Region. In a caution statement presented to the Circuit Court in Wa, the accused, Mr Moro Musah, admitted to the theft but said: “I
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Gabriel Dzimekpui, a septuagenarian farmer, has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing 325 teak trees valued at GH¢34,000. Dzimekpui was put before the Hohoe Circuit Court on December 14, 2023, for the offence, where he pleaded guilty with explanation. His explanation could not exonerate him hence was granted bail and sentencing deferred
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Mr Dawda M. Hafisdeen, former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the defunct Beige Bank, says the Universal bank invested in rebranding but its receiver failed to capture it in his report. The rebranding was necessitated when the Bank of Ghana (BoG) upgraded it from a Savings and Loans to a bank status, the first defence
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An electrician and a mason wept uncontrollably as an Accra Circuit Court fined them for posing as Electricity Company of Ghana staff and taking money from some customers over illegal connections. Nana Adu Gyamfi, a 33-year-old electrician, and Derrick Ntow Adumah, a 22-year-old mason, collected between GHC20 and GHC50 from ECG customers whom they claimed
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An Accra Circuit Court has fined a 22-year-old driver 100 penalty units, or GHC1,200.00, for stealing a banker’s tricycle worth GHC14,000.00. Eric Ofosu Mensah was found guilty and sentenced accordingly. The court, presided over by Mrs Kizita Naa Koowaa Quarshie, said Mensah would serve a six-month jail term in hard labour if he defaulted on
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A Tarkwa circuit court has sentenced Albert Ankomah, a 24 -year-old small scale miner, to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing. Ankomah, popularly known as ‘Paa Yaw or Simple,’ broke into two homes and made away with mobile phones and other household items. He pleaded guilty after being charged with causing unlawful damage, unlawful entry
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A Businessman, who assumed the role as family head and collected his late brother’s GHC206, 212.65 entitlement from the Ghana Police Service, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Kwame Tengey is said to have told his late brother’s three children that he was going to assist them to collect
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Kofi Sakyi, a taxi driver, who absconded with his employer’s taxi valued GHC75,000 has been sentenced to 60 months imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Sakyi, aka, Mosquito, was sentenced after the court found him guilty on the charge of stealing at the end of the trial. The court, presided over by Mr Isaac Addo,
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