<p class="ql-align-justify">JUDGEMENT</p><p class="ql-align-justify">On April 25, 1990, Masime, Gicheru and Cockar JJA delivered the following Judgment. This is an appeal against a sentence of 10 years imprisonment imposed at the Nyeri High Court on 28th July, 1987 following a plea of guilty by the appellant to a charge of manslaughter. The appellant was a former senior Superintendent of police attached to C.I.D. headquarters at Nairobi. From the facts related by the principal state counsel, Nyeri, to the superior court, which the appellant accepted as being true, it appears that the appellant on 28th January, 1989 left for Kirinyaga in the morning in order to visit his farm there. He had been authorized to carry a loaded gun during the course of his duties and he was carrying it with him on that occasion. He reached Kerugoya town at about 11.00 am and appears to have engaged in a drinking spree with friends continued upto about 8.00 pm.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">He then moved to Kiandai Trading Centre where again he had a few drinks with friends. Among the revellers in…</p>