COMPTROLLER OF CUSTOMS V. WORBIE DONKER TEYE
(1922) JELR 83247 (DC)
Divisional Court
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4 Apr 1922
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Ghana
Coram
SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON SMYLY, C. J. BEATTY, J., HALL, J.
Appearances
F. A. Williams, for C. J. Bannerman, for the defendant (appellant).
M. T. Hincks, Acting Solicitor-General, for ,the Complainant (respondent).
Judgement
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>JUDGMENT</u></strong></p><p><strong>BEATTY, J.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is an appeal by way of a case stated from a judgment of the learned Chief Justice dated 25th February, 1922, affirming the decision of the Assistant District Commissioner, Addah. The action was brought by the Comptroller of Customs against one Worbie Donkor Taye, the appellant before this Court, on a charge which reads as follows:</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>“For that you on the 9th day of January, 1922, at Futeh in the Addah district did unlawfully import, “distribute, sell, dispose of, or have in your possession trade or injurious spirits to wit, one keg of spirituous liquors contrary to section 3 of Ordinance No. 31, “1920.”</em></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">She was found guilty and sentenced to a fine of £100 or in default, six months' imprisonment.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The grounds of appeal before the court are :-</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">(i) That the charge was bad for uncertainty and duplicity as she was charged with several offences in one information.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">(ii) That the evidence did not show that the defendant was in unlawful possession of the goods the subject of the …</p></blockquote>