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COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
V.
SARPEY AND NYAMEKYE

(1961) JELR 115470 (SC)

Supreme Court 8 Dec 1961 Ghana
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Judges:SARKODEE-ADOO, JSC, ADUMUA-BOSSMAN, JSC, CRABBE, JSC
Counsel:K. A. Sekyi for the first appellant. B. J. da Rocha with him E. N. Moore for the second appellant. K. Dua Sakyi with him Adjetey for the respondent (the State).
Other Citations:[1961] GLR 756

JUDGMENT

Sarkodee-Adoo, JSC

The appellant, Kofi Sarpey, who is a general police constable, was charged in count 3 with aiding and abetting Kodjo Koranteng, a delivery clerk, Felix Lamptei, a delivery clerk, and James Amoo Nelson, a lorry driver in the commission of the offence of stealing. The three named persons were charged with conspiracy to steal in count 1, and in count 2 with stealing two cases of blouses valued at £G222 15s, the property of the Palm Line Agencies Ltd.; in count 4 Felix Lamptei was charged with the forgery of waybill No. 5646; and Felix Lamptei and James Amoo Nelson were charged with uttering the said waybill in count 5. The part taken by the appellant is not in dispute and as such for the purposes of this judgment, it is unnecessary to recapitulate in detail the facts thereof save to state that a charge of conspiracy had earlier been withdrawn against the appellant and the evidence clearly shows that at the time he became involved or identified with the transact…

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