[2024] KEHC 8038 (KLR)
The court found that the applicant failed to provide sufficient material or documentary evidence, such as the charge sheet or lower court proceedings, to establish the period he allegedly spent in custody prior to sentencing. The only document annexed was the warrant of commitment, which did not specify the date of...
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- Citation
- [2024] KEHC 8038 (KLR)
- Parties
- Applicant: James Hussein Ooyi; Respondent: Republic
- Court
- High Court
- Court Station
- High Court at Kisumu
- Jurisdiction
- Kenya
- Case Number
- Miscellaneous Criminal Application E040 of 2024
- Procedural Posture
- Miscellaneous Criminal Application / Ruling on Application for Consideration of Time Spent in Custody
- Outcome
- application dismissed
- Judges
- RE Aburili
- Legal Topics
- Sentencing, Pretrial Custody, Computation of Sentence
- Source Language
- en
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Parties
James Hussein Ooyi
Applicant
Republic
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Miscellaneous Criminal Application / Ruling on Application for Consideration of Time Spent in Custody
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether the applicant is entitled to have the period spent in pretrial custody considered in the computation of his sentence under Section 333(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Ratio Decidendi
The court found that the applicant failed to provide sufficient material or documentary evidence, such as the charge sheet or lower court proceedings, to establish the period he allegedly spent in custody prior to sentencing. The only document annexed was the warrant of commitment, which did not specify the date of arrest or confirm pretrial custody. In the absence of verifiable evidence, the court held that it could not invoke Section 333(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code to adjust the applicant's sentence. Consequently, the application was dismissed for lack of supporting material.
Court Disposition
application dismissed
Orders
- The application dated 3rd April 2024 is dismissed.
- Signal to issue.
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Ooyi v Republic (Miscellaneous Criminal Application E040 of 2024) [2024] KEHC 8038 (KLR) (28 June 2024) (Ruling)
Neutral citation: [2024] KEHC 8038 (KLR)
Republic of Kenya
In the High Court at Kisumu
Miscellaneous Criminal Application E040 of 2024
RE Aburili, J
June 28, 2024
Between
James Hussein Ooyi
Applicant
and
Republic
Respondent
Ruling
1. The Applicant in his application dated 3rd April 2024 is James Hussein Ooyi. He claims that he was convicted and sentenced to serve 7 years imprisonment in Winam SRM Sexual Offences Case No. E028 of 2021, for the offence of attempted rape and that sentence as imposed was to run from date of conviction yet he was in custody for 15 months. He does not state whether he ever appealed.
2. He has annexed warrant of commitment to prison term dated 5th July 2022 but no proceedings in the lower court are annexed for this court to verify whether he was in custody pending trial or not.
3. The warrant committing him to prison does not state the time the sentence was to run from. No charge sheet is annexed to indicate his date of arrest.
4. That being the case, this court is devoid of any material upon which it can invoke the provisions of Section 333(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code to consider with certainty the period spent in custody prior to sentencing.
5. The application dated 3rd April 2024 is dismissed.
6. Signal to issue.
7. This file is closed.
DATED, SIGNED AND DELIVERED AT KISUMU THIS 28THDAY OF JUNE, 2024R. E. ABURILIJUDGE