Uganda Case Law

Rex v Ngwililwa (Cr. App. No. 101/1935.)

Rex v Ngwililwa (Cr. App. No. 101/1935.) [1936] EACA 25 (1 January 1936)

Court

East African Court of Appeal

Case number

Cr. App. No. 101/1935.

Judge

Abrahamas, C.J. (Tanganyika), Fretz, Ag. C.J. (Zanzibar), Sheridan CJ

The Court of Appeal held that an accomplice’s evidence in a murder trial was not corroborated by an alleged confession or suspicious circumstances. The accused was acquitted.

• Accomplice Evidence
• Corroboration
• Murder Trial
• Judicial Intervention
• Confession Evidence
• Accomplice-evidence