[2016]DLHC17262 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><a name="_Hlk157437484"></a><a name="_Hlk152146143"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">JOSEPH ANYEN<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt 168.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua""> </span></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt; border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. CR 179 / 16 DATE: 13<sup>TH</sup> DECEMBER 2016.</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">COUNSEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">NAA ADZORKOR M. ADZEI ESQ. FOR THE ACCUSED/APPLICANT <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">SETH AWERE – OPANYINYENA, SENIOR STATE ATTORNEY FOR THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE CHARLES EDWARD EKOW BAIDEN</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:4.5pt;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif">Introductory background<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:15.3pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:7.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:43.0pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[1]<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">That appeal is by way of re-hearing, it is trite. According to Dotse JSC in the case of <b><u>DEXTER JOHNSON V THE REPUBLIC [2011] SCGLR 601:</u><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:13.95pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:43.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">"<i>Just like a civil appeal where it has been decided in a long line of cases that an appeal is by way of re-hearing. [...]. Criminal appeals are also by way of re-hearing</i>."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:14.05pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">This<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>principle<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>empowers<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Court<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>consider<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>its<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>entirety,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>appeal<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>record and substitute itself as the trial court.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.0pt"> </span>According to the Court of Appeal in the case of <b><u>BAKANA LTD. V OSEI [2014] 77 GMJ 68 at 76</u>:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:14.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:43.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">“<i>An appellate court as a rehearing court is to rehear an appeal as if the ruling were the original hearing of the case and hence may comprehensively review the whole case by analyzing the entire record of appeal<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>taking<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>into<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>account<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>testimonies<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>all<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>documentary<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">evidence </span>adduced at the trial before arriving at a decision so as to satisfy itself<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>that on the preponderance of probabilities, the judgment of the trial court is reasonably or […] supported by the evidence on the record.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:14.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:7.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:115%; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:42.9pt"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[2]<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">This is an appeal against the conviction and sentence of the Appellant by the Circuit Court, Accra dated 16 July 2015. The facts of the Prosecution case are that PW1 is one Dr. Yaw Adu Gyamfi, Managing Director of Danadams Pharmaceutical Company located at Baatsona Spintex Road, Accra. The Appellant is the Manager of Block and Bricks Manufacturing Company situated close to PW1’s pharmaceutical company. On 11 March 2014, PW1 reported excessive noise making and disturbance of public peace by the activities of t