<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>CHARLES CRABBE J</strong>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is an appeal from the judgment of the district magistrate sitting at Mampong Akwapim. The appeal is one against conviction on the ground that the judgment cannot be supported having regard to the evidence on record and that the conviction is wrong in law.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The case against the appellant is that acting in the execution of his duties as a public officer investigating a case of assault he allowed his conduct as a public officer to be influenced by the demand, and the acceptance, of the sum of sixteen new cedis in order to stop the prosecution of a case then before the court.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Counsel for the appellant maintains that from the evidence it would appear that the appellant was trapped. The evidence does not support the conviction and he referred to several parts of the evidence to support this contention, relying finally on Archbold&#x27;s Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice in Criminal Cases (36th ed.), and <strong>Brannan v. Peek [1947] 2 All E.R. 572, D.C.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Counsel for the Republi…</p>