ASARE ALIAS FANTI vs. THE STATE

JUDGMENT OF OLLENNU J.S.C. Ollennu J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was convicted by the High Court, Sekondi, of the murder of his wife, one Afua Ampomah. The crime was committed in the village of Kramokrom on the night of 15 September 1962. According to the case for the prosecution, the appellant who had, within the three weeks immediately preceding the crime, begun to suspect his wife of flirting with one Sulemanu Moshie, took leave of his wife at about 8 p.m. on the said 15 September 1962, allegedly to go out hunting, taking with him his single barrelled shot gun, some cartridges, a cutlass and his animal skin hunting bag, but leaving behind his hunting lamp. He had earlier that evening sent his step-daughter, the eldest child of the deceased, and his own first child by the deceased, to spend the night with their neighbour and friend, a woman popularly known as Mami Fanti; this was nothing unusual. The appellant returned to the house a short time after h...