PERCY ABOAGYE vs. THE REPUBLIC

MERLEY WOOD JA This is an appeal against the Judgment of the High Court, Criminal Court 4 on 20th July 2017 affirming the decision of the Circuit Court, Accra on 2nd December 2013. The Appellant was convicted by the Circuit Court, Accra on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery contrary to sections 23(1) and 149 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960, (Act 29) and robbery contrary to Section 149 of the same enactment. The brief facts of the case leading to the charges being levelled against the Appellant are that on 13th February 2011, at about 2:00am, the Appellant hired a taxi cab with Registration Number GS 6212 10 from Kwame Nkrumah Circle to Odorkor and directed the taxi driver to a place behind the main Odorkor Terrazzo Road. Upon the Appellant asking the driver to stop upon reaching a particular house, the Appellant put off the ignition and his accomplices emerged from the back of a kiosk wielding cutlasses and a pistol. They attacked the taxi driver and bolted with his vehicl...