JUDGMENT
The appellant was convicted of robbery, contrary to Section 296(1) of the Penal Code, by a Resident Magistrate at Kisumu, and sentenced to 31/2 years imprisonment and four strokes of corporal punishment. He appealed to the High Court at Kisumu, where his appeal was summarily rejected. Mr Owino, for the appellant, made it his first ground of appeal, on a second appeal to this Court, that the first appeal should not have been summarily rejected, as it raised several points of law, such a misdirection as to the onus of proof by the learned magistrate, and a complaint that the evidence of witnesses described as accomplices had been relied on without corroboration. As we have pointed out in earlier appeals at this session, it is physically impossible for a single judge at Kisumu to hear the large and ever increasing number of criminal appeals filed in the local Registry, and it is not surprising that an occasional appeal is summarily rejected which does not fall precisely within th…