REX
V.
J. A. KUMI AND J. N. ESSEL ALIAS KOFI APPIAH

JELR 81085 (WACA)

West Africa Court of Appeal · West Africa [For WACA cases]
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Other Citations

1946-49 12 WACA 292-293

CORAM

HARRAGIN, C.J (GOLD COAST), VERITY, C.J. (NIGERIA). LUCIE-SMITH, C.J. (SIERRA LEONE)

Core Terms ^Beta

money

second appellant

case

appellants

section

document

fact

criminal purpose

effect

false pretences

intent

criminal code

facts

first appellant

forgery

future date

hard labour

kamara

others

support of this argument

unlawful act

appeal

argument

consent of another person

end of the document

falsification

family house

grounds of appeal

kamara’s case

lady

last legal point

learned judge

mark of kwaku birikorang

means of any false pretence

means of such forgery falsification

points of law

possibility of any such gain

property of the nyege family

Harragin. C.J. The appellants in this case were charged on four counts:- (1) Conspiracy to forge a document; (2) Forgery; (3) Uttering forged document; and (4) Fraud by false pretences.

The first appellant has been convicted and sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour to run concurrently on counts 1 and 2. The second appellant has been convicted on all four counts and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour on each count to run concurrently.

It is against these convictions that they appeal to this Court. The facts which were satisfactorily proved were to the effect that the second appellant, being an illiterate and anxious to raise money, together with the first appellant forged a certain document and particularly the mark of Kwaku Birikorang at the end of the document which purported to authorise the second appellant to mortgage a house, the property of the Nyege Family of which Birikorang was the sub-chief.

On this document the second appellant appr…

REX V. J. A. KUMI AND J. N. ESSEL ALIAS KOFI APPIAH

REX
V.
J. A. KUMI AND J. N. ESSEL ALIAS KOFI APPIAH