IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
AT NAKURU
(CORAM: MADAN, KNELLER JJA and CHESONI Ag JA)
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO 50 OF 1983
JULIUS LOPEYOK WERO .......................... APPELLANT
VERSUS
REPUBLIC............................................RESPONDENT
JUDGMENT
Julius Lopeyok Wero, the appellant, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment on December 9, 1981 by the High Court at Nakuru (Mead J) and he appeals against this conviction and sentence.
So far as the conviction is concerned, he admits in his memorandum of appeal that he pleaded guilty to the charge but he then claims the evidence for the Republic at the trial was fabricated. Today he has again admitted he pleaded guilty.
The truth is that he was advised by his advocate to offer this plea which the state counsel said the Republic would accept and which the learned trial judge must have thought was appropriate for he reduced the charge from murder to manslaughter and then with some care had it explained to the appellant and…