Uganda Case Law

Rex v Rwakaikara (Cr. App. 39/1931.)

Rex v Rwakaikara (Cr. App. 39/1931.) [1931] EACA 15 (1 January 1931)

Court

East African Court of Appeal

Case number

Cr. App. 39/1931.

Judges

Barth, C.J (Kenya), Griffin C.J. (Uganda), Pickering, C.J. (Zanzibar)

The East African Court of Appeal upheld a conviction for indecent assault, holding that a prosecutrix’s complaint had been improperly proved by document rather than by oral evidence.

• Law Of Evidence
• Admissibility Of Complaints
• Indecent Assault
• Attempted Rape
• Law-of-evidence
• Criminal-appeal