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ANNOH V. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

(1961) JELR 67581 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  15 Jul 1961  •  Ghana

Coram
ADUMUA-BOSSMAN JSC, OLLENNU JSC, BLAY JSC

Judgement

OLLENNU J.S.C: The appellant was tried and convicted by the circuit judge, Kumasi, on nine counts of stealing. The subject-matter of the charges are nine separate sums of money, the value, in some cases, of a number of local council rolls of tickets of four penny and sixpenny denominations issued to the appellant and sold by him to the public, and in others, amounts shown on the council’s counterfoil receipt books as collected by the appellant on behalf of the council, and in each case not accounted for by him.

The appellant did not give any evidence on his own behalf at his trial, and the whole case therefore rested upon the evidence adduced by the prosecution which included oral evidence alleging that the appellant had admitted to the chairman of the council, the sixth prosecution witness in the presence of three prosecution witnesses, namely, the second, fourth and fifth prosecution witnesses, that he misappropriated the various sums of money; it also included a statement the appell…

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