APALOO AG C.J.
Some time in February this year, the Government of the United States of America requested of the Ghana Government the extradition for trial in that country, of the two applicants who are husband and wife. They were accused of a number of offences, the most prominent of which is fraud by false pretences. Accordingly, they were apprehended in this country on a warrant signed by a district magistrate and charged on two counts of fraud by false pretences. Proceedings to extradite them were accordingly commenced before the district court. The proceedings, by order of the Chief Justice, were transferred to the circuit court where they were heard and concluded before Judge Andoh (as he then was) on 29 August 1973. Objection to the extradition of the applicants was taken on a great many grounds, some of law, others of mixed fact and law and others on the facts. In a careful and very painstaking ruling which ran into twenty pages of typescript the learned judge dealt with the poi…