COMMISSIONER OF POLICE vs. MARBOAH [1962]DLHC1414

Date	1962-12-10
Suit No.
Citation No.	[1962]DLHC1414

APALOO J.

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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:center;
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color:#00B0F0">COMMISSIONER OF POLICE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:center;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 396.75pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">vs. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:center;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 396.75pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">MARBOAH <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:center;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 396.75pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">[HIGH COURT, KUMASI]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:center;
mso-pagination:none"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">[1962] 2 GLR 159<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;
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mso-border-shadow:yes"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">DATE:</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">10TH DECEMBER, 1962</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-border-shadow:yes"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;
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mso-border-shadow:yes"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">CORAM: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;
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yes"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
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yes"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">JUDGMENT OF
APALOO J.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
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yes"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">As long ago as 1894, it was stated in the case of Makin v.
Attorney-General for New South Wales [1894] A.C. 57 at p. 65 that “it is
undoubtedly not competent for the prosecution to adduce evidence tending to
shew that the accused had been guilty of criminal acts other than those covered
by the indictment, for the purpose of leading to a conclusion that the accused
is a person likely from his criminal conduct or character to have committed the
offence for which he is being tried.” The prosecution in recording a statement
of the accused’s previous convictions and submitting it to the court as part of
their case have indubitably offended against what I would call one of the most
deeply rooted and jealously guarded principles of criminal justice. In a case
which is admittedly wholly circumstantial, I find it impossible to say that if
this highly prejudicial evidence had not been communicated to the court, the
learned circuit judge would have inevitably come to the same conclusion. In the
circumstances, the conviction ought not to be allowed to stand. It is quashed.
For it, I substitute a finding of Not Guilty and order that the accused be
discharged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>

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yes"><a name="_gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif;">(Commissioner of Police v.
Marboah. Apaloo, J).<o:p></o:p></span></p></span></span></span></main>