KWASI ADU @ ETSEAFOO vs. THE REPUBLIC [2017]DLCA5248

Date	2017-03-17
Suit No.	CRIMINAL APPEAL NO: H2/19/2015
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA5248

VICTOR OFOE J.A. (PRESIDING)

FRANCIS KORBIEH J.A.

L. L. MENSAH J.A.

MATHEW AMPONSAH (CHIEF STATE ATTORNEY) WITH HIM AMERA SARPONG

(ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY) FOR THE REPUBLIC/RESPONDENT

C. K. HOEYI FOR THE APPELLANT.

[2017]DLCA5248
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KWASI ADU @ ETSEAFOO<o:p></o:p>(APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CRIMINAL
APPEAL NO: H2/19/2015&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 17TH MARCH,
2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MATHEW AMPONSAH (CHIEF
STATE ATTORNEY) WITH HIM AMERA SARPONG (ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY) FOR THE
REPUBLIC/RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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C.
K. HOEYI FOR THE APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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VICTOR
OFOE J.A. (PRESIDING), FRANCIS KORBIEH J.A., L. L. MENSAH J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>L.
L. MENSAH, J.A.<o:p></o:p>This is an appeal launched by the
Appellant against the ruling of the High Court, Accra dated 31st
March 2015 in respect of an application for bail which the High Court had
refused.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The facts which engendered this appeal
are as follows:-&nbsp; On 23rd July
2008 at 4.30 a.m the Appellant herein Kwesi Adu and one Yaw Anim hired one
Francis Owusu a taxi driver from Adukrom to Accra under the pretext of taking
an uncle to Adukrom who had arrived from abroad.&nbsp; On a section of the Larteh road, the
Appellant drew a sharp knife, and ordered the driver to hand over the keys of
the car.&nbsp; With a minimum resistance, the
Appellant inflicted knife and gunshot wounds on the taxi driver.&nbsp; The victim bled profusely and fell
unconscious.&nbsp; They tied the victim and
threw him into a near-by bush.&nbsp; The
Appellant who is a professional driver drove the Suzuki stolen taxi with
registration No. GS 3515 Y to Jericho, a suburb of Ashiaman and offered same
for sale in the sum of GH₵2,500.&nbsp; Due to the undervalue of the price of the
taxi, a concerned citizen who became suspicious, alerted the security men who
arrested the Appellant with his accomplice and sent them to the Regional C.I.D.
Tema, and later processed and charged them with the offence of conspiracy to rob
and robbery.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>During the trial of the Appellant and
his co-accused, the trial Judge at the Circuit Court was elevated to the High
Court and later transferred to High Court, Winneba.&nbsp; The Appellant and the other accused were to
open their defence.&nbsp; In course of the
trial, the Appellant was admitted to bail on account of a debilitating sickness
backed by a medical report.&nbsp; After the
bail, he was said to cure himself by herbal medicine.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>While on bail, the accused was said to
fail to present himself for trial.&nbsp; He
was caught in another criminal offence which is an attempt at car snatching,
and arraigned at the Circuit Court, Odumase Krobo.&nbsp; On account of his abuse of the bail granted
him, the High Court refused to admit the Appellant to bail.&nbsp; It is against the refusal to admit the
Appellant to bail that is the reason Appellant is in this court to contest the
refusal of the bail.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The Appellant has itemized five grounds
of appeal.&nbsp; These are:<o:p></o:p>