<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>JUDGEMENT</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>OLLENNU J.S.C.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The appellant was tried in the Circuit Court, Accra, jointly with one George Frank Cleland Bruce, on a charge sheet which charged the said George Frank Cleland Bruce with four counts of forgery, four counts of falsification of accounts, and four counts of stealing; and charged the appellant with four counts of possessing forged documents, and four counts of aiding and abetting the said George Frank Cleland Bruce to steal. The appellant and the said George Frank Cleland Bruce were convicted on each of the counts on which each stood charged. The appellant appealed against his said conviction on a number of grounds; the following are the most important of them: (1) that there was no evidence to connect the appellant with the stealing to make him aider and abetter in a crime of stealing as charged, and (2) there was no evidence to prove that the appellant knew that the documents in question were forged or not genuine.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Learned state attorney, for the respondent, conce…</p>