JUDGMENT
This is a second appeal from the judgment of the Chief Magistrate’s Court at Kibera (Onyina, SPM) delivered on December 2, 2013 in Criminal Case No. 5087B of 2009.
The brief background is that the appellants (Harrison Kariuki Mwangi and Kennedy Otieno Juma) were charged jointly with 3 others in the Chief Magistrate’s Court at Kibera in Criminal Case No. 5087B of 2009 with 7 counts of robbery with violence contrary to section 296(2) of the Penal Code. In summary, the particulars were that on 31st March 2006 at [Particulars Withheld] Lodge area in Ongata Rongai in the Kajiado District of the then Rift Valley Province, jointly with others, while armed with dangerous weapons, namely pistols, pangas and knives, robbed VAL, CCS, JCA, SPPA, LAD, and PJD, of an assortment of personal effects, including cameras, watches, mobile phones, laptops and other electronic equipment, and motor vehicle accessories, all valued at KShs. 1,300,000, and at or immediately before or immediately after t…