AGOGROBISAH vs. THE REPUBLIC

JUDGMENT OF BADDOO JA. This is an appeal against the judgment of the National Public Tribunal sitting at the old State House, Accra on 9 January 1991. In that judgment, the appellant and another accused person were convicted of conspiracy to rob and robbery and sentenced to death by firing squad. The facts of the case as set out by the prosecution witnesses were that the first accused person, Clement Yaw Akonor, and the appellant herein, Evans Agogrobisah, were friends. On 6 August 1990 the two in the company of a lady who has remained a mystery up till now, stopped a taxi cab No ACB 8643 at a Madina bus stop and requested to be conveyed to Adukrom-Akwapim in the Eastern Region on “a dropping” basis, which to the Ghanaian travelling public means a contract to convey the passengers to a specific destination without picking other passengers. The agreed fare for the journey was ¢4,000. The first accused person who has not appealed in this case, sat in the front seat with the...