IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
AT NYERI
(Coram: Shah, O’Kubasu and Keiwua JJ A)
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO 42 OF 2003
BEATRICE WANJIRU KINYUA...............APPELLANT
VERSUS
REPUBLIC....................................RESPONDENT
(Appeal from the conviction and sentence of the High Court at Nyeri)
JUDGMENT
The appellant Beatrice Wanjiru Kinyua (“the appellant”) was charged with murder contrary to section 203 as read with section 204 of the Penal
Code in that on the 21st day of June 1999 at Kirogo Village in Kirinyaga district of the Central province she murdered Rose Wakuthi Muriuki (the deceased). The appellant denied the charge and as a result tried before the
High Court at Nyeri (Juma J) where she was convicted as charged and sentenced to death as prescribed by law.
The appellant has field a supplementary petition of appeal through her lawyer Mr Nderi in which she cited the following grounds of appeal:-
“1. The learned judge erred in law and in fact in failing to properly direct himself on the alibi defence rais…