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BICHANGA
V.
REPUBLIC

(1985) JELR 105002 (CA)

Court of Appeal 24 Sep 1985 Kenya
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Suit Number:crim app 131 of 84
Judges:Joseph Raymond Otieno Masime, James Onyiego Nyarangi, Harold Grant Platt, Alan Robin Winston Hancox
Location:Nakuru
Other Citations:Bichanga v. Republic[1985] eKLR

JUDGEMENT

The appellant was convicted of burglary contrary to section 304 (2) of the Penal Code on the first limb and theft from a dwelling house contrary to section 279 (b) of the Penal code on the second limb and sentences to concurrent terms of five years imprisonment on each limb, together with 10 strokes of corporal punishment on each limb. The appellant’s appeal to the High Court was summarily rejected.

The appellant has raised the question in his second grounds of appeal to this court, whether, the first appellant court properly considered the first appeal, in that the evidence against the appellant was based wholly on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice, and he also questions whether the learned judge considered the improper rejection of his defence. Those matters were raised on first appeal in different words. He had said that the trial Court had misdirected itself in law and fact, and that the trial court had erred on the burden of proof. We observed also that the tri…

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