[2018]DLHC17254 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">PRINCE HORACE ALLOTEY <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. CR276/2016 DATE: 29<sup>TH</sup> MARCH, 2018</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: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"">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:4.5pt; 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">JOHN F. APPIAH ESQ., FOR THE APPELLANT<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;tab-stops:4.5pt; 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">DORCAS FELLI (MRS) 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: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="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">This is an appeal against the conviction and sentence of the Appellant, Prince Horace Allotey on 21<span style="position:relative;top:-4.0pt;mso-text-raise:4.0pt">st<span style="letter-spacing:1.5pt"> </span></span>April 2016 by the Circuit Court, Accra, presided over by Her Honour Mrs Abena<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Oppong<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>Adjin-Doku.<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>According<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt"> </span>facts<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>presented,<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>Appellant<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>advertised through<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt"> </span>rental<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>agents<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>he<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>was<span style="letter-spacing:-.4pt"> </span>letting<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>out<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>eight<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>rooms<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt"> </span>house<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>attracted the<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>twenty-seven<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt"> </span>Complainants/Victims<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>case.<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>Between<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>June<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>September<span style="letter-spacing:-.65pt"> </span>2011, the Victims approached the Appellant and with assistance of two accomplices, he collected an amount of GH</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">ȼ</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">24,833.00 from the complainants under the pretext of renovating<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>rooms<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>letting<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>it<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>out<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>them.<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>The<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>Victims<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>reported<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.7pt"> </span>case<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.8pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.85pt"> </span>police when<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Appellant<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>accomplices<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt"> </span>went<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>into<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>hiding.<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>One<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>Victims<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>spotted<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the Appellant at Makola, Accra on 18<span style="position:relative; top:-4.0pt;mso-text-raise:4.0pt">th<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt"> </span></span>July, 2012 and caused his arrest. The Appellant was then sent to the Mamprobi Police Station where he was identified by the other Victims.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height: 115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The Appellant was charged with twenty-seven (27) counts of defrauding by false pretences,<span style="letter-spacing:1.9pt"> </span>contrary<span style="letter-spacing:1.75pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:1.85pt"> </span>Section<span style="letter-spacing:1.95pt"> </span>131<span style="letter-spacing:1.8pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:2.0pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:1.95pt"> </span>Criminal<span style="letter-spacing:1.85pt"> </span>Offences<span style="letter-s