JUDGMENT
The appellants, Alfred Peter Pius and Edward Paul Tesha, were jointly arraigned before the Principal Magistrate’s Court at Kajiado on a charge of robbery with violence contrary to Section 296 (2) of the Penal Code. The particulars of the offence were that on the 28th day of October 2013 at 3.00 p.m. at Kiana Ndege in Loitoktok District within Kajiado County, while armed with a panga and rungus robbed James Mutua Mutate of a motor cycle registration number KMDC 360C Sky Go, the property of one, Sarah Wanjiku Njoroge, valued at Kshs. 72,000/- and a mobile phone make Techno valued at Kshs. 3,000/-, a pair of shoes worth Kshs. 500/- and cash 800/- the property of James Mutua Muteti and immediately after used actual violence by cutting him with a panga. They also faced an alternative charge of handling stolen property contrary to Section 322 of the Penal Code with the particulars being that on the same day, time and place otherwise than in the course of stealing, dishonestly receiv…