THE STATE vs. KOFI ADABO

JUDGMENT OF KORSAH, C.J. The appellant stood his trial at the Criminal Sessions held at Sunyani on Wednesday, the 1st March, 1961, on a charge of murder alleged to have been committed by him on the 21st November, 1960, and was on the 8th day of March, 1961, convicted of the said charge. He has appealed to this court and at the hearing counsel on his behalf has raised a preliminary objection to the information which was filed on the 22nd February, 1961, by which the appellant was charged with murder contrary to section 238 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 9. It is contended on his behalf that on that date the Criminal Code, Cap. 9 of the Laws of the Gold Coast (1951 Rev.) had been repealed and replaced by Act 29 of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana, the Criminal Code, 1960, which came into effect on the 1st February, 1961, and therefore this court should hold that the trial and conviction of the appellant was null and void. In support of this contention, counsel argued that a...