Rex v Okecha
Rex v Okecha (Criminal Appeal No. 168 of 1940) [1940] EACA 27 (1 January 1940)
The conviction was upheld because the trial judge correctly found corroboration for the unsworn statement of the child witness, Obothi, in the evidence of a prior threat made by the appellant against the deceased. This antecedent corroboration went beyond mere motive and tended to connect the appellant with the killing, satisfying the legal requirement that corroborative evidence must implicate the accused in material particulars. The court applied established principles from English case law, confirming that antecedent corroboration is valid and that independent testimony connecting the accu…
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- Murder
- Corroboration Of Evidence
- Child Witness
- Accomplice Evidence
- Antecedent Corrobation