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Distinction between trial and conviction
Effect of a conviction based on a plea of guilty with reasons
Effect of a conviction based solely on a confessional statement obtained through an interpreter where the interpreter was not called
Effect of a conviction where the accused person pleads guilty with explanations
Effect of a conviction where the trial court in a summary trial convicts the accused but makes no findings of fact and fails to write a reasoned judgment
Factors to be considered by the court before deciding to convict an accused person
Meaning of conviction
Need for a conviction to be based on proof beyond reasonable doubt
The principle that the ingredients of an offence must be proved by the prosecution beyond reasonable doubt in order to secure a conviction
The rule that a conviction stands until reversed by a court of competent jurisdiction
The two elements that must be present and proved before there can be a conviction for any offence
What conviction entails
When the court can safely convict on the evidence adduced by the prosecution
Whether a conviction based on a wrong law will stand where the infraction complained of is covered by an existing law
Whether a person can be convicted for an offence simply because he lied
Whether a reversal of the judgment of the trial court is enough to ground a conviction
Whether an accused person can be convicted for an offence with which he was not charged
Whether an accused person can be convicted where the evidence of the prosecution enures in his favour
Whether an accused person can be pronounced guilty because he refuses to testify
Whether an accused person charged with committing an offence against two or more persons can be convicted and sentenced in respect of committing the offence against one person
Whether can accused person can be convicted because he did not controvert the evidence of the prosecution
Whether criminal convictions can be founded on the mere ipse dixit of a trial court
Whether failure of a trial judge to convict on each count is fatal to conviction
Whether it is only a court that can pronounce on the validity or otherwise of a conviction
Whether reasons must be given for conviction
Whether the conviction of an accused person under a wrong law is fatal
Whether the conviction of an accused person will be set aside on the ground that he was charged under a repealed law
Whether the court can quash the conviction of a party who has not appealed where the conviction of a co-accused is quashed
Whether the court can substitute a conviction for an offence with a conviction as an accessory after the fact to the offence charged
Whether the court is bound to accept the submission of a state counsel that a conviction should not be affirmed
Whether the Court of Appeal can substitute the conviction of the trial court with conviction for another offence
Whether the failure to record a conviction is fatal
Whether the forfeiture of a bail bond amounts to a conviction
Whether there must be a record of conviction before a sentence is passed
Window of opportunity for an accused person challenging his conviction under a repealed law
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