SOLOMON DOGBEY vs. THE REPUBLIC [2023]DLHC16971

Date	2023-03-24
Suit No.	SUIT NO.F23/14/2022
Citation No.	[2023]DLHC16971

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE AYITEY ARMAH-TETTEH

MR OLIVER ATSU ABADA

MS. CELESTINA ARKU (ASA)

[2023]DLHC16971
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >SOLOMON DOGBEY<o:p></o:p>(APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, HOHOE]<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;&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: 0cm; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

<a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>SUIT NO.F23/14/2022&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; DATE: 24TH &nbsp;MARCH 2023<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&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: 0cm; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

MR OLIVER ATSU ABADA FOR
APPELLANT<o:p></o:p>

MS. CELESTINA ARKU (ASA)
FOR RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE AYITEY
ARMAH-TETTEH<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: 0cm; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

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

</div>This is an appeal against
the Judgment of the Circuit Court, Kpando dated 28 February, 2022.<o:p></o:p>The Appellant was
arraigned before the Circuit Court on one count of Defrauding by False Pretence
contrary to section
131(1) of the Criminal and other Offences
Act 1960 (Act 29).<o:p></o:p>He was tried and convicted and sentenced to 4 years imprisonment
with hard labour.<o:p></o:p>It is against this
conviction and sentence that the Appellant has appealed to this Court. The grounds
of appeal found
in the Notice of Appeal dated 4 March 2022 and filed on 9 March 2022 are as follows:-<o:p></o:p>That the conviction and
sentence of the Appellant on the charges was against weight of evidence adduced
at the trial and on record<o:p></o:p>This
is a criminal appeal and the omnibus ground of appeal set out in ground 1 of
Appellant’s notice of appeal is wrong. It should be that “the verdict cannot be supported having regard to the evidence.”<o:p></o:p>The facts as presented by
the prosecution are that complainant is a fisherman staying at Kpando Torkor and the appellant is the head
Pastor of victory Chapel
International also staying at
Kpando Torkor. The complainant is also a ch</main>