<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>ANIN J.A. </strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Kobina Akrong, a farmer, was walking from Nkum to Perkyerakyer, a cottage near Swedru, early in the morning of 10 October 1970. On the way he met the first appellant, accompanied by Kwesi Assani, the fourth witness for the prosecution, walking in the opposite direction. At the invitation of the first appellant, Akrong accompanied him to the house of Kobina Ahama (the sixth witness for the prosecution) at Perkyerakyer and the fourth witness for the prosecution followed them later.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A prosecution witness Kwesi Ankomah, the fifth witness for the prosecution, recalled seeing his two grandchildren, the first appellant and Kobina Akrong, on the day in question quarrelling as they entered Perkyerakyer. He explained that they were quarrelling over a cocoa farm devised by the late Kofi Nkum (the first appellant&#x27;s father) to his wife and children, which had been pledged by one Sackey ( the executor of the will and caretaker of the farm) to Akrong. The first appellant insisted on the far…</p>