JUDGMENT
MILLS-ODOI J.S.C.
The appellant was convicted on the 20th February, 1963, before Bannerman J. sitting with a jury at the Criminal Sessions of the High Court held at Kumasi for the murder of his own uncle.
The case for the prosecution was that the appellant and the deceased travelled to Nkawie in January 1957 and lived together, very happily, at the Agriculture Department bungalow for five years during which period the appellant cooked and rendered other domestic services for the deceased. In January 1962 the deceased's wife, Agnes Kuntoh, joined him at Nkawie. Shortly afterwards one Mary Afua Agyepongmaah, a girl of about thirteen years of age, was brought to the bungalow as a maidservant for the deceased and the appellant started making love with her.
The deceased became aware of the amorous relationship between the appellant and the maidservant. He therefore called the appellant and one other nephew, Edward Apiedu, and warned them of the dangers of flirting with girls of tende…