[2017]DLHC17234 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:0cm"><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">JOHN APPIAH <o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:0cm"><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: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";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops: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";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:0cm"><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:0cm"><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:0cm 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:0cm; 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 930/2016 DATE: 3<sup>RD</sup> MAY, 2017</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="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops: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"">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="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm; 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;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">JOSHUA SACKEY ESQ., STATE ATTORNEY FOR THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops: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"">CORAM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:0cm"><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: 1pt 0cm;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%; tab-stops:0cm;border:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 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:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 0cm;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:0cm 1.0cm"><!--[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">This<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>an<span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt"> </span>appeal<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>decision<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Circuit<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>Court,<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>Accra<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>dated<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>11 August 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 0cm;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:0cm 1.0cm"><!--[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">The<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>brief<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>facts of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>case<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Complainant,<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Emmanuel<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>Ashie<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>a driver who lives at Teshie while the Appellant, John Appiah a.k.a Kwabena Appiah is a mason who lives at Assin Manso in the Central Region. On 10 June 2016<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>about 12<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>midnight,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the Complainant was driving<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>KIA<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Picanto<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>taxi with registration number GR 2273 – 16 when the Appellant and his accomplice who is now at large, stopped him in front of International Trade Fair Site, La. The Appellant<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>accomplice<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt"> </span>asked<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Complainant<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>to take<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>them<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Labone<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>at a<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>fare<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>GH</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">ȼ</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">10. The<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Appellant then<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>instructed<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the Complainant<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>come<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>out<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>of the<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>car<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>place<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>thei