KWASI MANU vs. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

JUDGMENT OF ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J.S.C. Adumua-Bossman, J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal is against a conviction by the District Magistrate, Tamale, of the appellant on two charges of stealing contrary to section 287 (1) of the Criminal Code,1(1) to wit (a) an Opel Rekord car of the value of £G746 12s., the property of one Israel Kenneth Bamfo of Sawla; and (b) a quantity of petrol of the value of £G 1 10s. 4d. the property of Shell Company of Tamale. The district magistrate after convicting the appellant expressed the view that the circumstances of the commission of the offences were too grave for any sentence which was within his power to impose, and he therefore remitted the case to the circuit judge for the latter to deal with the question of sentence. Accordingly Judge Djabanor in the circuit court dealt with the matter and imposed on the appellant a sentence of four years imprisonment with hard labour on each of the two charges to run concurrently. The notic.....