REX
V.
JOHN OGBUEWU

Ames, J. This appeal is against a conviction for murder. The first ground of appeal is that a statement made by the deceased was wrongly admitted in evidence as a dying declaration and that a statement made by the accused to the Police was also wrongly admitted in evidence.

It will be convenient to deal first with the latter statement. that of the accused. It was made voluntarily and after a caution, and was taken down in writing. The argument against its admissibility is that the statement was make in Ibo and the Constable-wrote it down in English and not in Ibo. Mr. David, who represented the appellant, said that this Court has held that statements made to the Police must be written down in the language in which they were made; but he was not able to refer us to any case in which any such ruling was made. There is no such case reported in a)}y of the published volumes of W.A.C.A. reports and we are not aware of any unpublished decision in which it has been so held by this Court. It i…