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Omiyot and Another v Reginam (Criminal Appeals Nos. 192 and 193 of 1955) [1955] EACA 355 (1 January 1955)
The Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa dismissed two murder appeals, upheld corroboration of accomplice evidence, rejected compulsion, and approved a modified application of Judges’ Rules rule 8.
Joshi v Rex (Criminal Appeal No. 73 of 1951) [1951] EACA 228 (1 January 1951)
The Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa held that an uncautioned police statement should have been excluded, but the error did not affect the conviction for robbery with violence.
Wambugu v Rex (Criminal Appeal No. 265 of 1950) [1950] EACA 91 (1 January 1950)
The court quashed a receiving-stolen-property conviction because the accomplice’s evidence lacked corroboration and police questioning after caution was improper.
Mkwayi v Reginam (Criminal Appeal No. 251 of 1956) [1950] EACA 612 (1 January 1950)
Appeal allowed after the court found unsafe reliance on a dying declaration and held that cross-examining the accused on an inadmissible custodial statement was fatally prejudicial.
Majelo v Reginam (Criminal Appeal No. 159 of 1956) [1950] EACA 576 (1 January 1950)
The Court of Appeal affirmed one murder conviction, quashed another, and held that one omnibus death sentence was unlawful. It also rejected a dying declaration and an uncautioned police statement.
Rex v Mulindwa (Criminal Appeal No. 143 of 1949) [1949] EACA 41 (1 January 1949)
The Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa upheld a murder conviction, addressing the admissibility and voluntariness of confessions and the effect of the Judges' Rules.
