DUAH vs. THE REPUBLIC

JUDGMENT OF ABBAN J.A. Abban J.A. delivered the judgment of the court. On 12 September 1985 the appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by the High Court, Accra. It was against this conviction that he appealed to this court, mainly on grounds of misdirection and misreception of evidence. The murder charge arose out of the death of one Dr. Agnes Yeboah, aged 26. The prosecution alleged that the appellant on 12 April 1985 intentionally stabbed the said Dr. Agnes Yeboah to death with a knife at the housemen’s flats, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, The facts, briefly stated, were that the appellant and the deceased knew each other in Accra. Later, they met in India where both of them happened to be students. The appellant’s father was Ghana’s High Commissioner to India at that time, and the father of the deceased once paid a visit to India and lodged with the appellant’s father. There was no doubt that the families of the deceased and the appe...