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RICHARD MITALO MUKOTO
V.
REPUBLIC

(2017) JELR 93334 (CA)

Court of Appeal 30 Jun 2017 Kenya
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Suit Number:Criminal Appeal 49 of 2016
Judges:Erastus Mwaniki Githinji, Martha Karambu Koome, Fatuma sichale
Location:Nairobi
Other Citations:Richard Mitalo Mukoto v. Republic [2017] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

[1] This is a second appeal from the judgment of the High Court in Nairobi in HC CR. Appeal No 112 of 2008. That being so, this Court is enjoined by dint of the provisions of Section 361 of the Criminal Procedure Code to consider only matters of law. In doing so, this Court will not interfere with concurrent findings of fact arrived at by the courts below unless it is shown demonstrably, that the same were based on no evidence (See Karingo v. Republic [1982] KLR 219 and also Okeno v. Republic [1972] EA 32). The test to be applied is whether the two courts below considered matters of fact that should not have been considered or failed to consider matters that they should have considered, or that looking at the evidence, they were plainly wrong.

[2] We will recapitulate the brief background information so as to put this judgement in perspective and in order for us to isolate the points of law that fall for determination. On 22nd December, 2006, Reino Bernard, a resid…

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