KWEKU ATTAH vs. THE REPUBLIC

PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC:- This case arose out of a marital dispute that tragically ended up in violence, leaving one party dead, and the other awaiting capital punishment in prison. When a marriage which supposedly began with love ends with such vicious acts by one party against the other, then one is compelled to see the wisdom in the words the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote, that there are, “links of the great chain of things, To every thought within the mind of man Sway and drag heavily, each one reels Under the load towards the pit of death: Abandoned hope, and love that turns to hate: And self-contempt, bitterer to drink than blood” An unhealthy thought began with “love that turns to hate” in a husband, and birthed a chain of events aimed at blocking any future opportunity of the wife to start another relationship and another life. The result was this tragedy which now forms the basis of this appeal. Background and Facts: The appellant, a taxi d...