<p><strong>OWUSU-ADDO J.</strong></p><p>On 21 February 1972 the appellant who had been charged with stealing was convicted by a Kumasi circuit court and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour. The case for the prosecution was briefly this: the room of Abudulai Adam, the first prosecution witness, was broken into during the night of 8 February 1972 when he had gone to visit his brother and his wireless set, wrist watch and accordion were stolen. On the following day at about 4 p.m., he went to a nearby shop to buy cigarettes where he saw the appellant playing his missing accordion. He asked the appellant how he came by the accordion and he replied that he had picked it up from the ground. He therefore invited the appellant to the Manhyia Police Station. The appellant having been charged with stealing the first prosecution witness’s missing articles made a statement, exhibit A, to the effect that he was going to a public lavatory at Ashanti New Town at about 5.30 a.m. on 9 February 1972, when h…</p>