SARKODEE-ADOO, J.S.C.: This is an appeal from convictions before Charles, J. sitting with the aid of assessors at the Assizes holden at Accra on the 6th January, 1960. The appellants, the first and second of whom are husband and wife, were all jointly charged on two counts of housebreaking and stealing from the shop of Messrs. Swiss African Trading Company, Limited, Accra, (hereinafter referred to as S.A.T. Co. Ltd.), goods to the total value of £G1, 549 6s. 7d. the property of the said company.
The facts briefly put are that during the night of the 29th May, 1959, the shop of S.A.T. Co. Ltd., in Knutsford Avenue, Accra, was broken into and goods stolen therefrom. Within the space of a few hours thereafter the appellants were found in possession of a large quantity of goods very similar to those stolen from the shop, and gave no reasonable explanation as to how they came by them save a fantastic story that they were found at Takoradi.
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