REPUBLIC vs. ANIMAH

JUDGMENT OF ABAKAH J. This is a ruling on an objection raised by Mr. J. O. Adu Amankwah, learned defence counsel in this case, on behalf of the accused. The objection is to the tendering of a statement said to have been made by the accused to the first prosecution witness, the police investigator in this case. Mr. J. O. Adu Amankwah’s objection was founded on the premise that the statement does not contain what the accused said. Mr. J. O. Adu Amankwah, however, varied this basis a little by stating that what he was saying was in effect a denial by the accused of the authorship of the statement. This was when Mr. Adu Amankwah was faced with the authority of Asare alias Fanti v. The State [1964] G.L.R. 70, S.C. cited by Mr. S.Y. Anim, Senior State Attorney, who resisted the objection on behalf of the Republic. From the mini trial which has occasioned this ruling the statement said to have been made by the accused is not exactly the same as what the accused herself contends s.....