THE STATE vs. AMANKWA

JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J.S.C. Adumua-Bossman, J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court [His lordship referred to the facts and the previous proceedings and continued:] The well-reasoned conclusion of the trial judge is challenged by the appellant on the main ground that the principal witness, the cashier, Joshua Okoe Tetteh, P.W. 10 should have been treated as an accomplice whose evidence required legally to be corroborated but was not. Learned counsel for the appellant argued forcefully that the evidence available as to the cashier’s conduct established that he was an accomplice; the conduct referred to was that: (1) he entered up the cash requisition book (exhibit 1) as having requisitioned and received £G1,000, indicating the denominations of money which were supplied to him; (2) he wrote on the withdrawal form (exhibit B) that he identified P.W. 2 (Kofi Num) by his photograph; (3) he recorded in the savings account or pass-book (exhibit A) that the £G1,000 was paid out...