[2019]DLCA6322 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#00B0F0">ANYASS JIBRIL</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">(APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:#00B0F0">THE REPUBLIC </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center; line-height:115%"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">(</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">RESPONDENT</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">)</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">[</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;">]</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">SUIT </span></b><b><span lang="CY" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">NO. H2/14/2017 </span></b><span lang="CY" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> </span><span lang="CY" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;"> DATE: </span><span lang="CY" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">27<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 115%"><b><span lang="CY" style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">COUNSEL: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">CECILIA ANIM PEPRAH TAKYI (S.A) WITH AVON ADJUMAH ADJARE AND AKOSUA DANSOAA ASIAMAH <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">CHRISTOPHER FOR THE REPUBLIC/RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"">CORAM: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height:115%;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">MARIAMA OWUSU J.A. (PRESIDING), DZAMEFE J. A., WELBOURNE (MRS) J. A.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: 115%;mso-outline-level:1"><b><span lang="CY" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:115%;mso-outline-level:1;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><b><span lang="CY" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">WELBOURNE, JA <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="CY" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Kumasi, dated 11<sup>th </sup>January, 2013. The judgment is found at pages 109 to 131 of the Record of Appeal while the Notice of Appeal can be found at pages 132 to 135 of the Record of A ppeal, filed on 8th Februry, 2013 and 28th October, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="CY" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The facts in this case are fairly simple and straightforward. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">BRIEF FACTS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The Brief Facts of this case as put forward by the Prosecution are that on the 4<sup>th</sup> of August 2011, personnel of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), Ashanti Region, arrested the Appellant herein at his residence at Asawasi, Kumasi and retrieved a total of three thousand, three hundred and twenty five (3325) wrappers of powdery and rocky substances which later tested positive for heroin and cocaine which are narcotic drugs. An amount of Three Thousand and Twelve Ghana cedis (GH</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">₵</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">3,012.00) and One Thousand One Hundred and Eighty Naira (N1,180.0) were also found in the Appellant’s room. The Appellant was subsequently arranged and tried before the High Court, Kumasi on the following charges:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Count One</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">: Possession of Narcotic drugs without lawful authority contrary to <b>Section 2(1)</b> of the Narcotic Drugs (control), Enforcement and Sanctions Law, 1990 (PNDCL236).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The particulars of the offence was that the accused, a business man of 25years on or about the 4<sup>th</sup> of August 2011 at Asawasi, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region did without lawful authority. Have in his possession Twenty (20) wrappers of cocaine with a net weight of 0.4880 grams.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Count Two</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">: Possession of Narcotic drugs without lawful authority contrary to <b>Section 2(1)</b> of the Narcotic Drugs (control), Enfo