THE STATE
V.
NIMOH

VAN LARE J.S.C.: The appellant was convicted upon the charge of murder and sentenced to death before Crabbe, J., sitting at the Assizes holden at Kumasi on the 16^th June this year. The deceased was the appellant’s wife and there is no denial that the killing was the act of the prisoner who according to his own testimony at his trial that after a quarrel, consisting of exchange of abuses and, as may be inferred from the evidence, followed by a fight, he became very angry and entered his room whence he fetched a gun which he fired at his wife thereby causing her death. The actual killing took place in the yard of the house where both the appellant and the deceased lived. There was no eye-witness of the events immediately preceding the killing, but upon the report of a gun-shot a witness who happened to be only a few yards away and heard the deceased scream rushed into the house. The deceased was seen lying in a pool of blood on the ground and the appellant standing not far away from the…