KABRE vs. THE STATE

JUDGMENT OF AZU CRABBE J.A. Azu Crabbe J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. The appellant was convicted by a jury before Sowah J. sitting at Ho on 17 November 1965, for the murder of one Kwasi Kabre at Lekorkor in the Volta Region on 12 October 1964. The deceased, a boy of between nine and ten years old, lived with his mother and the appellant, together with two other sisters, in the said Lekorkor cottage at a village called Baika. The deceased was the step-son of the appellant, but the appellant regarded him as his real son. Almost all those who lived in the same village with the appellant thought, in view of the appellant’s affection and care for the deceased, that the deceased was the real son of the appellant. The deceased invariably accompanied the appellant to the farm to help. No one knew of any quarrel between the appellant and his wife, and the evidence was that the appellant and his family lived happily together. On the morning of that fateful day when the killi.....