Uganda Case Law

Rex v Gitwasi (Revision Case No. 253 of 1942)

Rex v Gitwasi (Revision Case No. 253 of 1942) [1942] EACA 89 (1 January 1942)

Court

East African Court of Appeal

Case number

Revision Case No. 253 of 1942

Judge

Lucie-Smith, J. (Kenya), Sheridan CJ

The court quashed a conviction under the Employment of Servants Ordinance, holding that three or four days’ absence did not prove an animal was “irretrievably lost.”

• Employment Of Servants
• Burden Of Proof
• Irretrievable Loss
• Interpretation Of Statute
• Burden-of-proof
• Statutory-interpretation