REX
V.
DURUIBE AND PAUL MBAM

JELR 81024 (WACA)

West Africa Court of Appeal · West Africa [For WACA cases]
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1938 4 WACA 124-127

CORAM

C.J., Carey and Graham Paul, JJ.

Core Terms ^Beta

second appellant

evidence

case

criminal code

northern isu native tribunal

trial

documentary evidence

first appellant

first count

learned trial judge

regard

paul mbam

said chief duruibe

second count

trial judge

charge

chief duruibe

facts

further evidence

illegal means

judicial corruption

learned judge

weight of evidence

accused persons

application of his counsel

applications of the appellants

criminal prosecution

crown counsel

evidence of any inducement

first appellant's grounds

grounds of appeal

judgment of the judge of the high court

judicial officer

member of the northern lsu native court

members of a native tribunal

misreception of evidence

oral evidence

personal influence

proof of such inducement

reception of such oral evidence

respect of his conviction

respect of the second count

support of the first ground

third ground

KINGDON, C.J., NIGERIA, CAREY AND GRAHAM PAUL, JJ.

This is an appeal against the judgment of the Judge of the High Court in the Enugu-Onitsha .Judicial Division given at Okigwi whereby the first appellant, a member of the Northern lsu Native Court, was found guilty of an offence contrary to section 114 of the Criminal Code and the second appellant (the clerk of the same Court) of an offence contrary to section 115 of the Criminal Code.

The applications of the appellants for extension of time within which to appeal were granted and leave to appeal was granted to them.

The charges upon which the appellants were tried were as follows:- “STATEMENT OF OFFBNCE: FIRST COUNT.

“Judicial corruption contrary to section 114 of the Criminal Code.

“PARTICULARS OF OFFENCB. “Chief Duruibe on or about the 19th day of March, 1938, in the “Province of Owerri being a Judicial Officer to wit a member “of the Northern Isu Native Tribunal corruptly received £3 “from Etigbue on account of his the said Chief Dur…

REX V. DURUIBE AND PAUL MBAM

REX
V.
DURUIBE AND PAUL MBAM