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