JUDGMENT
ARCHER, JA:
This is an appeal from the decision of the High Court, Tamale, dated 29th June 2016, in a murder case. By that decision the Appellant was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging by the neck. This was after the jury returned a verdict of guilty on the Appellant for the murder of Rawdia Aminu.
The Appellant submits that the decision was erroneous in that the learned trial judge in the summing up to the Jury failed to direct the jury properly on the defence of self-defence raised by the Appellant, and further direct the jury on the danger of reliance on hearsay evidence.
Another ground of appeal urged upon this Court is that the Appellant was 17 years 7 months old at the time of the commission of the offence and therefore a juvenile in accordance with the Juvenile Justice Act, 2003, Act 653. By the provisions of the Act, a juvenile ought to be treated differently from an adult, and the punishment for serious offences, including murder, is three (3) years. The sentenc…