REX
V.
PETERS UDO AKPABIO

JELR 81111 (WACA)

West Africa Court of Appeal · West Africa [For WACA cases]
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1944 10 WACA 181-185

CORAM

COR. KINGDON, C.J., BAKER AND BROOKE, JJ.

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sum

16th april

prosecution

criminal code

learned trial judge

war fund

26th april

capacity of a clerk

first count

22nd november

ground

grounds of appeal

ikot ekpene

meeting of 17th april

particulars of offence

third count

udo akpabio

said peters udo akpabio

second count

such circumstances

view of the acquittal

1kot ekpene division of the calabar province

best evidence

book of the said branch of the ibibio union

entry of the sum

evidence of the witness

facts

first part of the second of these questions

fraudulent false accounting

good faith

inter alia

nice point of law

only direct evidence

operative society

overt act definite

retention of the money

statement of offence 1st count

subsequent meeting

such support

trial judge

undisputed facts

The judgment of the Court was delivered by the President :- In this case the Appellant was charged in the High Court of the Calabar-Aba Judicial Division upon three Counts with the particl1lars as shown :-

“STATEMENT OF OFFENCE 1st Count “Stealing by Agent contrary to section 390 (8) (b) of the Criminal Code, “PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE “Peters Udo Akpabio on or about the month of January, 1942 in 1kot Ekpene Division of the Calabar Province did steal the sum of £4 10s. 5d. which had been entrusted to him as Honorary Treasurer of the Ikot Ekpene Branch of the Ibibio Union for him the said Peters Udo Akpabio to pay into the Win-the-War Fund,

“STATEMENT OF OFFENCE 2nd Count Fraudulent False Accounting contrary to section 438 (c) of the Criminal Code,

“PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE

Peters Udo Akpabio on or about the month of November, 1941 at Ikot Ekpene, in the Calabar Province while acting .in. the capacity of Honorary Treasurer of the Ikot Ekpene Branch of the Ibibio Union did with intent to defraud…

REX V. PETERS UDO AKPABIO

REX
V.
PETERS UDO AKPABIO