Uganda Case Law

Rex v Masago (Cr. App. No. 159/38)

Rex v Masago (Cr. App. No. 159/38) [1938] EACA 195 (1 January 1938)

Court

East African Court of Appeal

Case number

Cr. App. No. 159/38

Judge

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

The court quashed a juvenile vagrancy conviction and an Approved School detention order, holding that section 14(2) of the Vagrants Ordinance carried no prescribed penalty.

• Juvenile Offenders
• Vagrancy
• Sentencing
• Statutory Interpretation
• Criminal-appeal
• Juvenile-offenders