AZU CRABBE, J.S.C.: The appellant was convicted on 6 November 1970 at the Eastern Region Criminal Sessions held at Accra upon an indictment containing two counts: one for conspiracy, and another for robbery, and was sentenced by Koi Larbi J.S.C. (sitting as an additional judge of the High Court) to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour on the first count, and fifteen years’ imprisonment with hard labour on the second count, the sentences to run concurrently.
The facts, so far as they are relevant, can be shortly stated. The victim of the robbery, William Kyei Appiah, was a petrol dealer of the Agip (Ghana) Ltd., and his petrol station was on the Cantonments Road, Osu, Accra. On 7 November 1969 at about 9 p.m. he left the petrol station for his house, and carried in his hand a bag containing money and some documents. On the way he met two young men coming from the opposite direction, and after he had passed them, he looked behind and noticed that the two young men were following him…