REX
V.
DURUIBE AND PAUL MBAM
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…