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Criminal Law [1951] EACA 152

Boghani v Rex

Boghani v Rex (Criminal Appeal. No., 25.4, of, 1ASO.,) [1951] EACA 152 (1 January 1951)

The court dismissed a criminal appeal against an official corruption conviction, holding that a magistrate’s irregular locus test did not cause a miscarriage of justice.

  • Official Corruption
  • Magistrate Procedure
  • Evidence Evaluation
  • Locus Inspection
  • Official-corruption
  • Criminal-appeal
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Criminal Law [1950] EACA 94

Kamau v Rex

Kamau v Rex (Criminal Appeal No. 290 of 1950) [1950] EACA 94 (1 January 1950)

Criminal appeal on seditious publications, recording of guilty pleas, and sentence variation. Convictions were upheld, but the appellate court varied the sentences.

  • Sedition
  • Seditious Publication
  • Plea Of Guilty
  • Sentencing
  • Magistrate Procedure
  • Penal Code Section 58
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Criminal Law [1945] EACA 44

Rex v Mutabirwa

Rex v Mutabirwa (Criminal Appeal No. 292 of 1945) [1945] EACA 44 (1 January 1945)

The East African Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against a security-for-good-behaviour order, holding that the magistrate used the wrong procedure and made no necessary finding.

  • Security For Good Behaviour
  • Habitual Offender Proceedings
  • Magistrate Procedure
  • Bond Order Requirements
  • Security-for-good-behaviour
  • Habitual-offender-proceedings
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Criminal Law [1935] EACA 60

Rex v Kabutui

Rex v Kabutui (Criminal Appeal 153/1934.) [1935] EACA 60 (1 January 1935)

The Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa held that a confession elicited by a magistrate without warning, especially after an earlier inadmissible confession, was not voluntary and was inadmissible.

  • Confession Admissibility
  • Voluntariness Of Confession
  • Magistrate Procedure
  • Evidence Law
  • Confession-admissibility
  • Voluntariness-of-confession
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