COLLINS ALIAS DERBY
V.
THE REPUBLIC

(1988) JELR 65355 (CA)

Court of Appeal · 14 Jul 1988 · Ghana
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[1987-88] 2 GLR 521

CORAM

FRANCOIS J.S.C ,OSEI-HWERE JA,AMPIAH J.A.

Ratio Decidendi

Core Terms ^Beta

jury

appellant

state v

trial

trial judge

unanimous verdict

case

appellant’s mother

sack of corn

ankaful psychiatric hospital

appellant’s room

appellate court

criminal procedure code

doris fynn

early hours of the morning

exhibit n

jury’s consideration

learned judge

mental state

appellant’s clothes

appellant’s mental history

circumstances of this appeal

continued trial

evidence of facts

evidence of this witness

following words

foreman of jury

further argument

hodge’s case

important matter

important questions

insane delusions

lord goddard c.j.

lord merris of borth-y-gest

medical examination

mental condition

nautical studies

piece of the jig-saw

police officer

previous statement

proof of the charge of murder

prosecution witness

reasonable doubt

third prosecution witness

time of the appellant

trial leave

vexed issue of circumstantial evidence

whitish velvet material

FRANCOIS J.S.C.

In the early hours of the morning of 28 June 1984 a young woman left her house to take breakfast to her father in his farm. She got there only to discover her father’s battered body in a stream under a bridge that divided his two farms. In attempting to drag her father out of the water, she discovered he had sustained extensive injuries. Blood was oozing from his mouth and the side of his neck. His teeth had been knocked out. Her father was fully clothed with his faming boots on. Nearby was a cutlass, and by it a spear, a truncheon, a sack of corn and a strange pair of brown sandals. She recognised the sack and cutlass as belonging to her father, but not the other items.

The autopsy on the deceased disclosed a fracture of the skull which a blow to the head could have caused. Wounds on the forehead and the back of the head were lacerations caused by a metal implement. The lacerations to both back and front of the head ruled out accident and forcibly suggested the inflict…

COLLINS ALIAS DERBY V. THE REPUBLIC

COLLINS ALIAS DERBY
V.
THE REPUBLIC