THE REPUBLIC vs. MICHAEL AGBANYO ALIAS OBINA AND HAPPY GAWU [2018]DLHC4082

Date	2018-07-16
Suit No.	SUIT NO.F17/5/2015
Citation No.	[2018]DLHC4082

(SGD) N.C.A. AGBEVOR JUSTICE OF APPEAL.

MR. ADUGU FOR PROSECUTION.

MR. KPORHA FOR A1.

[2018]DLHC4082
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MICHAEL AGBANYO ALIAS
OBINA AND HAPPY GAWU<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, HO]<o:p></o:p>SUIT
NO.F17/5/2015&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 16TH JULY, 2018<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
ADUGU FOR PROSECUTION. <o:p></o:p>MR.
KPORHA
FOR A1. <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>(SGD)
N.C.A. AGBEVOR JUSTICE OF APPEAL. <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>The two
accused persons were charged with <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
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mso-border-shadow:yes">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp; Conspiracy
to commit crime with a common purpose to commit Robbery under
Section 23(1) of Act 29/60. <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
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mso-border-shadow:yes">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp; Robbery
of one Godwin Senanu Ahorsu under Section
149 of Act 29/60. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
facts upon which these charges are laid are that the complainant is a
businessman dealing in mobile phone cards and mobile money. He resides at Ho New
Housing Estates with his family. On the 1/3/2015
at 2.10am, the complainant and his wife and their two year old child were sleeping in their bedroom when three masked men
broke into the room and attacked them with a gun, a cutlass and other weapons.
They requested them to bring out their money. Complainants told them that they
had no money. The robbers beat them with a cutlass and succeeded in taking away
seven mobile phones, a motor cycle with Registration Number M14-VR-1188 and
cash the sum of GH€8,000. A complaint was made to the police and after a series
of investigations the two accused were arrested. In an identification parade
complainant identified A1 and A2 as some of those who robbed
him. <o:p></o:p>