AKANDE
V.
KWAKYE AND ANOTHER LOMNICKY & CO., LTD.
V.
KWAKYE AND ANOTHER

(1965) JELR 64425 (HC)

High Court 1 Mar 1965 Ghana
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- The case involves two convicts, Kwame Kwakye and Moses Adeyemi, who were convicted for theft of a large sum of money belonging to Ramanu Akande. - The first motion seeks an order to restrain anyone holding money or property belonging to t

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Judges:APALOO J.S.C.
Counsel:P. A. ADJETEY FOR THE FIRST APPLICANT; H. V. A. FRANKLIN FOR THE SECOND APPLICANT.,VICTOR OWUSU FOR THE RESPONDENT.

JUDGMENT

APALOO J.S.C.

On 23 February 1965, I heard together without making a formal order for consolidation, two motions which sought two separate orders affecting the money and other property of two persons by name Kwame Kwakye and Moses Adeyemi both of whom I convicted on 16 October 1964 for the theft of a large sum of money belonging to Ramanu Akande, one of the applicants in these motions.

The first motion which was not inappropriately characterised as a roving one, sought an order to restrain all persons holding money or other property belonging to the two convicts from parting with or disposing of it without the order of this court. The applicant also sought a further order, more rambling than the first, that “any person to whom any payment of money or transfer of property has been effected by the defendants since March 1964 shall return the said money or property to the deputy sheriff, etc. “The two orders were professed to have been sought under the Criminal Procedure Code (Amen…

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