JOHNSON OGU V. THE QUEEN

BRETT, F.J. (delivering the judgement of the Court):- The appellant was convicted on six counts for uttering, contrary to section 467 (3) (c) of the Criminal Code, or section 366 of the Penal Code, on four counts for stealing contrary to section 390 (6) of the Criminal Code, and on two counts for cheating contrary to section 322 of the Penal Code. In outline the case against him was that while employed as a clerk in the Treasury he caused vouchers to be submitted to the Treasury, Jos, purporting to show that various sums were due to contractors for work carried out on behalf of the Public Works Department, and that in consequence of these vouchers cheques were issued of which the proceeds were credited to bank accounts operated by the appellant himself under different names. The signatures on the vouchers purporting to be those of the officers controlling payment were forged, and the work supposed to have been done had not been done. The total sum obtained by means of these frauds was…