REX
V.
ALBERT STEPHEN ,TAWIAH ALIAS YAW TAWIAH & YAW BAFO

Lewey, J.A. These were appeals against convictions m the Divisional Court, Kumasi, for the offence of arson of a building contrary to section 255 of the Criminal Code.

The facts were simple; the .learned trial Judge believed the evidence of the prosecution witnesses and it is only necessary to say that this Court can find no good reason for criticising him for so doing.

With the leave of this Court, additional grounds of appeal, involving questions of law, were filed on the 3rd January. In so far as those grounds relate to an alibi which the appellants sought to establish at the trial, there is little to be said, and there is nothing on the record to support any suggestion that this part of , the defence did not receive due attention at the trial. As to the facts of the alibi, it was not disputed that, on the evening of the fire, the appellants bicycled from Badu-the scene of the fire--to Wenchi, a distance of some eighteen miles, and there made a report to the police. But as it is esta…