CHISOME NSUBE & 2 ORS vs. THE REPUBLIC

JUDGMENT This is a judgment delivered pursuant to a Petition of Appeal filed on 23rd January 2024, on behalf of the above named Appellants who were the A1 and A2 at the trial Court. The appeal was filed pursuant to leave granted to file appeal out of time by the High Court on the 24th October 2023. There is proof of service of the Petition of Appeal on the Attorney General on the 6th February 2024. The Appeal is against the sentences on one count each for each Appellant for the offences of Conspiracy to commit crime, namely Robbery and Robbery. The Appellants were convicted on their own pleas on the 22nd December 2021 and sentenced on the 5th January 2022 by the Circuit Court, Weija, Accra, then presided over by Her Honor Ellen Lordina Mireku Esq. (as she then was) to fifteen (15) years IHL on count one (1) and twenty (20) years IHL on count (2), both counts to run concurrently. THE GROUNDS OF APPEAL The only ground of appeal was that the sentence was harsh. The Appellants therefo...