JUDGEMENT
This is an appeal launched by the appellant herein, against the Judgment of the Circuit Court, Mpraeso in the Eastern Region delivered on the 171h day October 2018 and presided over by her Honour Mariam S. Sinare [as she then was]. The charge upon which the appellant was convicted and sentenced was defilement contrary to Section 101 [1] of the Criminal Offences Act 1960; (Act 29).
The appellant pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement on the day of trial. The trial Judge, accordingly, convicted him on his own plea and sentenced him to 7 years imprisonment in hard labour. The appellant, obviously being dissatisfied and aggrieved with the judgment has exercised his right of appeal to this court on the following grounds:
GROUNDS OF APPEAL
The judgement cannot be supported having regard to the evidence on record, The Honorable Circuit Court Judge erred when he convicted the accused/ Appellant.
The whole trial, conviction and sentence was wrong in law
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