FRIMPONG KYEI BAFFOUR vs. THE REPUBLIC

L. L. MENSAH, J.A. This is an appeal launched by the Appellant who was convicted for the offence of conspiracy to commit robbery contrary to section 23(1) of Act 29 1960, and robbery contrary to section 149 of the Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1960 as amended by Act 646 of 2003. The particulars of the offence is that the Appellant with two others on the 9th day of May, 2005 at Asokwa in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region did at gun point rob one Osei Kwadwo of a Nissan Primera Taxi cab with Registration Number GT 3738 T. After full trial of the Appellant and the two others one of whom is at large, the Appellant was found guilty of the two offences aforementioned at the High Court, Kumasi on 29th July, 2009. He was sentenced to 21 years I.H.L. on each of the two counts. The sentences are to run concurrently. The facts on which this appeal rests is that the complainant Osei Kwadwo a taxi driver was driving a Nissan Primera with Registration No. 3738 T aforesaid on the 9th ...