KARUMA
V.
THE QUEEN
LORD GODDARD (reading the Judgment)
This is an appeal by leave from a judgment of the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa dismissing an appeal from a conviction by an Emergency Court of Assize in Kenya whereby the appellant was convicted of being in unlawful possession of two rounds of ammunition contrary to Regulation 8A (l) of the Emergency Regulations of the said Colony and sentenced to death. The ground on which leave had been obtained was that the evidence proving that the appellant was in possession (he ammunition had been illegally obtained and should net have been admitted.
Before detailing the facts it will be convenient to recite Regulation 29 of the Emergency Regulations as it was this that formed the ground on which the objection was taken. Omitting words immaterial for the present case it is in these terms :
any Police Officer of or above the rank of Assistant Inspector with or without assistance and using force if necessary may stop and search any individual whether in a pu…