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Mango v Queen (Criminal Appeal No. 211 of 1955) [1955] EACA 280 (1 January 1955)
The court upheld a corruption conviction, holding that bribe-givers acting under pressure were technically accomplices but needed only slight corroboration.
Butt v Queen (criminal Appeal No. 200 of 1954) [1954] EACA 175 (1 January 1954)
The court upheld a conviction for official corruption, finding no prejudice from amending the charge to use “X” and no error in the three-year sentence.
Queen v Butt (Criminal Revision Case No. 2706 of 1953) [1954] EACA 187 (1 January 1954)
The court held that a probation order is not a sentence, may be revised and set aside if made without statutory basis, and remitted the case for sentencing.
Gound v Queen (Criminal Appeal No. 760 of 1953) [1954] EACA 161 (1 January 1954)
The court upheld a corruption conviction for offering a bribe to drop a police charge, held a defence witness-first order was not fatal, and deemed the sentence served.
Njaggi and Another v Regina (Criminal Appeal No. 42 of 1952; Criminal Appeal No. 43 of 1952) [1953] EACA 37 (1 January 1953)
The court held that calling a witness after the defence had closed is permissible only in exceptional, unforeseen circumstances, and quashed the convictions as unfair.
Kitete and Another v Rex (Criminal Appeals Nos. 179 and 180 of 1951) [1951] EACA 294 (1 January 1951)
The Court of Appeal set aside convictions for official corruption, holding that the appeal had been wrongly summarily rejected and the evidence was insufficient.
Patel v Rex (Criminal Appeal No. 47 of 1951) [1951] EACA 188 (1 January 1951)
The Court upheld Patel’s conviction for official corruption, holding that his own evidence could cure any no-case point and that no amendment of particulars was required.
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.
Singh v Reginam (Criminal Appeal No. 271 of 1956) [1950] EACA 597 (1 January 1950)
A police inspector’s conviction for official corruption was upheld on uncorroborated accomplice evidence, the court finding the witness credible and the offence made out.
Rex v Chelagat (Criminal Appeal No. 436 of 1948) [1948] EACA 79 (1 January 1948)
The East African Court of Appeal held that a corruption charge combining multiple distinct transactions in one count was duplicitous and not curable.
