R vs. KWADWO MENSAH

This appellant was convicted by a jury before Simpson J., sitting at Accra on the 23rd April, 1959, for the murder of one Kwabena Ahunu at Okrakwadjo on the 14th December, 1958. The appellant raised as a defence the issue of the state of his mind at the material time, and he accompanied this with a complete denial that he was even in the village at the time when Ahunu was killed. As to this latter contention, it is so contrary to the evidence that learned Counsel for the appellant made no point of it at the hearing of the appeal before us. There can be no doubt whatever that it was the appellant who killed Ahunu. The real contest between the Crown and the appellant was upon the issue of his alleged insanity, and upon this the facts placed before the jury were, apart from medical evidence, as follows (his lordship stated the facts, and proceeded:—) The killing in this case appears to have been entirely motiveless. No witness knew of any previous association or quarrel between th.....