THE REPUBLIC (RESPONDENT) vs. TSATSU TSIKATA (APPELLANT)

ADJEI,JA: This appeal emanated from the decision of the High Court Accra delivered on 18th June, 2008 in which the Appellant herein, then the accused person was convicted on counts one, two, three and four as contained in the charge sheet. The Appellant was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for five years on each of the four counts and the sentences were to run concurrently. The Appellant dissatisfied with both conviction and sentence appealed to this Court to reverse the judgment contained in the Notice of Appeal filed on 18th June, 2008; the very day that the appellant was convicted and sentenced. The brief facts of the case which culminated in this appeal were that three counts of offence for willfully causing financial loss to the State contrary to section 179A (3) (a) of the Criminal Code now the Criminal Offences Act,1960 (Act 29) and a count of intentionally misapplying public property contrary to Section 1(2) of the Public Property Protection Decree 1977 (S.M.C.D 140) n...