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DICKSON MWANGI MUNENE & ANOR
V.
REPUBLIC

(2014) JELR 105261 (CA)

Court of Appeal 28 Feb 2014 Kenya
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- The appellants, Dickson Mwangi Munene (a police officer) and Alexander Chepkonga Francis, were jointly tried and convicted of murder by the High Court (Warsame J), following the fatal shooting of the deceased after a barroom altercation a

Case Details

Suit Number:Criminal Appeal 314 of 2011
Judges:David Kenani Maraga, Roselyn Naliaka Nambuye, Jamila Mohammed
Location:Nairobi
Other Citations:Dickson Mwangi Munene & another v. Republic [2014] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

This is an appeal from the judgment of Warsame J (as he then was) delivered on 5th October 2011 in Nairobi HCCRC. No. 11 of 2009 in which the learned Judge convicted both the appellants for the offence of murder and sentenced them to death.

The facts of the case are that on 23rd January 2009 Dickson Mwangi Munene, the 1st appellant went to the residence of Alexander Chepkonga Francis (the 2nd appellant) along Elgeyo Markwet Road in Kilimani Area of Nairobi. Other friends of theirs including Mark Sagini Monyenye, PW6, and Melvin Waruhiu Gitau, joined them. After exhausting the alcoholic drinks that were in the 2nd appellant’s residence, they went in two cars, with 1st appellant apparently alone in his car, to Florida Club in the City Centre where they continued drinking until about 4.00 a.m. of 24th January 2009. From Florida Club, they went to another drinking joint in Westlands known as Mobile from where they ended up at Crooked “Q” bar and Restaurant along Woodva…

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