19850710 TZHC Mbeya

IN TID! COUiIT OF 1PPhAL OF T:NZMIIA • 22 ;T 2Lj. CRIMINAL IWPIAL NO 88 OF 1980 AIWWELE s/o WHY MWAIPASI. JPPELLJUT

VOWS TF 1UPUBLIC, HESPONDENT (Appeal from the conviction of the High Court of Tnzania at Mboya) (Kimioha, J.) dated the 26th day of November, 1)80 in Criminal Sessions Case No. 60 of JUiNT OF THE COURT The appellant, Andwele Jimy Mwaipasi waa chariod and conliated in the High Court at Mbeya f9r the offence of murder c/s 196 of the Penal Code and was sonenceci to suffox death by haning, He was aggrievod by the conviction and sentence, hence this appoal to this court,. Mr. Batoyunga, loarned advocate appeared for the appel1mt in thi court whereas Mr. Toemba, learned atcie QtOrDay the5 'espOndcnt Republic. Most of the primary and secondary facts in this case are othor common gruhd or indisputed between the parties. The appellant and one Rehema d/o Inye1wis lived as husband and wife rospt.1y at nwa village within Mbo 1a District, in Mheya Region up to the 4th Api', 1978. They were however not ifu11y married, On the 3rd April, 197 8 9 the so4 Rehema d/o Ariyelwise persuaded her brother, that is the third prosecution witness (P.i.3) to go with her to Dar as Sa1am whore ho worked as a po1iceman Itwas agreed that she was to moot him at their aunt 1 s house the following morning ready for the journey to Dar ec SaLam She apparently informed the a?pcl1ent about this arr oannt an:, the appellant saw P..3 and verified this information th t some day of the 3rd April, 1978. Sometime during

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moans that the appellant Idlied the deceased. The next important point is whether 'the appellant hal malice aforothouht. The apollant contends that thro was a fi;ht in which he sustained a hoed injury. It is true 'that when he made his ex1ra—judicial statement on the 11th April, 1978, the justipo of the peace noticed a fresh wound on appellant 's head. The question arises whehor this wound was sustained by the appellant on the /:bh April, 1973 when the deceased died. To axe of the considered view on the..Qvidonce thc,c, the fresh would noted by%'1io justice of the peace ceFthQ 11i April, 1978, cou).d not have been sustained by the appellant seven ci:'js earlier on the 4th Apri1 1978. A soven—dayb old wound cannot he said to be fresh. The appellant must have .staned it some days after the doath of the doeas1. The evidence shows that there was every likelihood for the appellant to sustain such wound after he '1isap:.eared fr'm M sccne. to resisted arrest and was violent when arrested on the 7th April, 1978. It required a crowd of people to subdue his attenr:ts to ascae. Under those circumstances he must have boon injured on the head and such wound would still be fairly fresh four clays later when he met the justice of the peace on the 11th April, 1973. The Justice of the peace also notipad a soond Crong of superficial VJOUfl(is on his limbs and choock. It is net 'sux'pris1

'thr' when P. 1 -3 and ?..4 found the apollant at his home il the mo'nii' of the 4th April, 1978 his hands and 1os were wet as he had been washinr himself, We think on the evidoce the ap'rollani must have washed away traces of blood from his limbs to avoid SUS)iCiO1. Fur-thcrmoe,., the aidical evidence shows tiia'L' the deceased muferec1 twcty- two out wounds pi her boc3.y Q The appellant on hi.s ,art 6ustainal &oz&I superficial.' wounds oi his limbs and cheeci:. Clearly if there wat a fiht it most havo been a one—sided affair a';ainst the dooaied and the ape11ant cannot be anici to have boon actin' under provocation or self—defence. Furthermore, the ape1lants contention that he used' a knife by mistake thinking it was a stick stretches credulity beyond reasonable limits r.... -4.-- To one can cut up another ttwntv..trro times with a irnife and still think he is usinij- a sticki The nature and number of those cut wounds establish beyond doubt that the ao1iant had malice aforWouaht in killing the decasoc1. He was therefore properly convicted. 7o dismiss the appeal in its entirety. /P DL'ED at MBEYA th I?th day of July, 1985- 1 - .F,y'L. TYALALI N.. I JU$TIC3 OF APPIA.L A. H. A. OEAPL JUATICE 4i I A/I cor - if hai is is a tuc copy of to orii1. / 1iJIOfl ;.