JUDGMENT
COUSSEY P.
Emmanuel Yaw Attigah was convicted at the Cape Coast Assizes on November 14, 1956, by a judge sitting with three assessors for that, on December 15, 1954, at Agona Swedru he did for the purpose of extorting the sum of £100 from Daniel Kwesi Obimpe, threaten to accuse the said Daniel Kwesi Obimpe of an infamous offence namely, of intentionally and unlawfully setting fire to lorry No. W.P. 6786.
The case for the prosecution depended mainly on the evidence of Obimpe and Robert B. Otoo, the second and third witnesses for the prosecution. The appellant claims that at the relevant time he was investigating a report concerning Obimpe made to him by one Esson, a convict on licence who had disappeared before the trial. Otoo, the appellant says, was not on speaking terms with him because the appellant, when a police sergeant at Elmina, had refused to permit Otoo to be a professional bailer of persons charged with offences. These men supported their story against the appellant w…