MILLS-ODOI J.S.C.
The court has already intimated that this appeal is dismissed and we now give our reasons.
The appellant was convicted before Djabanor J. sitting with a jury in the High Court, Sunyani, on the 19th September, 1962, of the murder of a man named Kwabena Owusu. The case for the prosecution was that the deceased and the appellant lived together at Caesar Cottage in Brong-Ahafo Region until the former died on the 21st May, 1962, as a result of harm inflicted on him by the latter.
On the 19th May, 1962, the deceased and one Kwasi Aweso who also lived at the cottage the same day, told the appellant that the sixth prosecution witness, Grace Dede, his former girl-friend, had expressed a desire to see the appellant at Goaso the next day.
In pursuance of this message the appellant and one Tekper (the first prosecution witness) travelled in vain to Goaso on the 20th May, 1962. They returned to the cottage in the evening between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. and the appellant complained vehement…