REX
V.
PETERS UDO AKPABIO
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…