JOSEPH ADAMS vs. THE REPUBLIC

On 29 December 2010, the Circuit Court Accra convicted the appellant herein and four other accused persons on two criminal offences - conspiracy to commit crime, and robbery, contrary to s.23(1), and s.149 of the Criminal & Other offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) respectively. Though the convicts including appellant pleaded not guilty to the charges, the circuit court after full trial found each of them including appellant (first accused (A1) person) guilty of the charges, and sentenced each to ten (10) years, and forty (40) years imprisonment with hard labour respectively on the charges. The brief facts are that on 28 June 2009, at about 7:30 pm, the appellant, a Nigerian national together with four other convicts of Ghanaian nationality by the use of gun attacked the complainant in this case (PW1) a trader at her home at Ashongman, Accra. By the use a gun and threat of harm, the appellant and the other convicts succeeded to rob the complainant and other persons in the house of valu...