JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
The appellant David Gachogi Mwai was charged, tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison by the Baricho Senior Resident Magistrate on a charge of defilement contrary to Section 8 (1) of the Sexual Offences Act No. 3, of 2006 in that on the 10th day of May 2009 at [particulars withheld] Village, Kerugoya West District within the former Central Province, he defiled G.W.M a child aged 6 years. He faced an alternative count of indecent act with a child contrary to Section 11 (1) of the same Act in that at the same place and time, he inserted a finger into the girl's vagina.
Aggrieved by that conviction and sentence, the appellant appealed against both to the High Court at Kerugoya (H. I. Ongudi J) which, by a judgment delivered on 25th July 2013, dismissed it, hence this appeal by which the appellant, in self-crafted grounds, has faulted the learned judge as having erred in law by:
Failing to hold that the complainant's age was not proved, documentary evidence not…