JUDGEMENT.
The appellant and another were convicted of stealing stock contrary to section 278 of the Penal Code and each was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment and one stroke corporal punishment. He appealed to the High Court (Schofied J) contending that he did not have anything to do with the stolen cattle and that he was mistaken for a thief because he and the other together walked to the market place where the other was supposed to have sold the material stock. The appeal was unsuccessful. His grounds of his second appeal are that the complainant failed to identify him, that he had no connection with the other who was found in possession of the stolen bulls, that the co-accused did not mention him in court and that the co-accused voluntarily admitted the offence. In a brief address to the court, the appellant complained that he was convicted although the other accused admitted stealing and did not mention him.
Mr Bwonwonga, senior state counsel, supported the conviction and submitted…