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Wana v Rex (Cri'rhirial Appe'al"No.-217 of ‘1950.) [1951] EACA 148 (1 January 1951)
The Court of Appeal set aside a murder conviction after finding the trial judge failed to consider that key witnesses had a strong motive to shift blame from a co-accused.
Rex v Nyankangi (Criminal Appeal No. 123 of 1948) [1948] EACA 68 (1 January 1948)
The East African Court of Appeal upheld an 18-month prison sentence for assault causing actual bodily harm, but set aside a Sh. 1,000 fine as unjustified.
Rex v Hirji and Others (Criminal Appeals Nos. 32, 33 and 34 of 1946) [1946] EACA 32 (1 January 1946)
The court held that while the evidence established beyond doubt that the deceased was killed by strangulation at the hands of one of the four persons found in the inner room, it did not establish a common intention among all accused to kill or cause grievous harm. The evidence supported only a common intention to assault, not to murder. The court found that unsworn statements by co-accused could not be used against others unless they amounted to confessions, which was not the case here. The misdirection by the trial judge regarding the use of such statements did not occasion a failure of just…
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