REPUBLIC vs. ALI MOHAMMED [2023]DLHC16923

Date	2023-05-15
Suit No.	CASE NO. F22/19/2023
Citation No.	[2023]DLHC16923

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE GEORGE BUADI

MS ELORM FUGAH

MS JOAN AKORFA OSEI

[2023]DLHC16923
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ALI MOHAMMED<o:p></o:p>(CONVICT/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, HO]<o:p></o:p>&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;&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; <o:p></o: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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

</div>COUNSEL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o: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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

MS ELORM FUGAH (ASSISTANT
STATE ATTORNEY) FOR THE REPUBLIC <o:p></o:p>

MS JOAN AKORFA OSEI FOR APPELLANT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE GEORGE
BUADI <o:p></o: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; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;Upon leave that the Court
granted on 9 February 2023 upon an application filed under the Criminal &amp; Offences (Procedure) Act, 1960 (Act 30) s. 326, the Appellant
filed this appeal on 24 February 2023, dissatisfied not with his conviction for
the charges of conspiracy and robbery
with arms contrary to sections 23(1) and 149 of
the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) respectively1 but rather with the 25 years IHL sentence the trial Circuit
Court Kpandu passed on him after convicting him of the two charges
on 19 February 2016. The ground of the appeal,
therefore is for the mitigation of the 25 years sentence.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The brief facts of the
case I can recite here are that on 29 April 2015 at about 3 am at a section of
the road, one and a half kilometres from Ve- Golokwati Police Barrier, a gang of armed
men, some in face masks blocked the road with logs and stopped vehicles from both directions
of the road and ordered passengers on board vehicles compelled to stop to
alight from the vehicles. The men robbed the passengers of their mobile phones, laptops,
cash<span</main>