<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>JUDGMENT</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>EDUSEI J.</strong> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The appellant was convicted of stealing ¢127.50, the property of one D. K. Annane on 9 May 1967 contrary to section 124 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29). Against this conviction the appellant has appealed to this court.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Counsel for appellant filed a number of grounds of appeal but the most important grounds were: </p><blockquote><ol><li><p style="text-align: justify;">that the charge was bad for duplicity, and </p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify;">that the conviction cannot be supported having regard to the evidence. The particulars of offence read as follows:</p></li></ol></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“For that you Peter Anako Nonde, on 10 November 1966 at Tema in the Accra Magisterial District and within the jurisdiction of this court did steal 85 bags of cement value ¢127.50 the property of one D. K. Annane.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The district magistrate Grade I, Tema, convicted him of stealing the sum of ¢127.50. The evidence of D. K. Annane, the first prosecution witness, clearly showed that the appellant on different dates in October 1966 recorded the correct number of bags of cement sold out to customers on the dail…</p>