ATA-BEDU J.: This is an application for bail pending appeal by the applicants who were on 5 June 1972 convicted on two charges of forcible entry by his worship D. K. Okyere sitting as Magistrate Grade 1 at Hohoe and were each sentenced to a term of nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
The substance of the charges against the applicants is that, armed with cutlasses and clubs, they entered the cottages of the first prosecution witness and the second prosecution witness, set fire to the kitchen of the second prosecution witness’s tenant, Subulegah, and to the second prosecution witness’s mattress and firewood, removed the roofing sheets from the second prosecution witness’s kitchen, destroyed cooking pots and a snare and carried away her iron pot, table and fowls. At the cottage of the first prosecution witness they ordered her to pack all her goods and leave without questioning and demanding reasons for such an order; the first prosecution witness complied with the order and left…