KORANTENG-ADDOW J.: This is an appeal from the judgments of the District Magistrate, Sekondi. The judgments appealed from are in three separate cases (cases Nos. 25, 26 and 27 of 1965) tried at Half Assini on the same day. The charges in case No. 25, case No. 26 and count 1 of case No. 27 were all under section 237 of the Criminal Code, 1960,1 and the facts are almost identical save that the three offences took place at different times and at different places. The first took place at Half-Assini on 28 January 1965 (case No. 26), the second on 29 January 1965 at Bonyere (case No. 27) and the last on 30 January 1965 at Takinta (case No. 25).
The staple in the charges was that the two accused persons pretended to be public officers and under that assumed character did obtain certain articles from the complainants in these matters. The articles involved are ordinary daily needs, e.g. reels of black cotton thread, Atwood Bitters, bottles of lavender, pieces of cotton prints, shirts and spec…