19700318 TZHC Dar es salaam

ra nxn (IOUIrf 01 W1ZNZA AT Dfl 1$ SAL4 CWM AT't 51 W 1970 0igina1 ith1 QRse got 54 of 1969 Of the Di3trjot Couzt of inida Di1riot at sinfida Bøfciio J. •. o1a j., JitictAagintrate .IOilN Xh!O1I0 UiiLI VereLw Tkt i?U1LIC ClldI StOAIjAg by a pe:on amployind in the Public Jvice c/so 270 and 265 of the kanal (odo yrr( • ion - The ap1iiat we eonviced of atoaling .4 1 1 267/70 the property of the 0ov.. nont, iond ho wan otrntenced to i:rioonrnent for to yere snd to the otatutory 24 atrokon , corporal puniohient fli ia now appealing. The ppoceoation called 2 witnernee end produeod a mue of doou- eutary exhibita The appoilant was at the mteiai tic aiployed as a cler by the Piatrict curt of Si.nida It wae the p'o cuton coe that ovo iod between Uctobr, 1968 anO March f 1969 the oppellent fogotI many pyMunt Ch.erL in respoct Of witneea a11owance. The for€ can be divided into two e1aaee. In the one olae, ccoMin to the proecutien, the modas operan4i of the ape11nt wav to alter the fi.uree in the payment vouchers, tue the I of the sum, of 10/— would be altired to read Z0/— thoh in most caus thle, I would altered to a 4, tuiting p r43gt of 10/— into one of 40/—, eoh alteration being the eipleat kind of alteration, at in eoma cazeo the appellant iou1d edd a diit thus a payment of 5/— he added a 7 to road 75/—. In the other clate of forgers' thi appellant would enter fietitioue naoa on thu vouohove and then ut one of hie own finger or thttribgvinto puxportirij to he that of the ayee oat of the Vity,#313cau were withescue who hod eiiied, accovdinz to them, 1eeer amounte thn shown in Lila peyment vouohere., Thais their cvidence f if acopte, would datblieh tWt the yent vouchora eze a1tord after nayment wa mca to then. tu total peonted by all tbee forgeriea was the amount givon in the charge ehoet, on which the appellant woo eonvict. The llnt dufenee was to the QfZOOt that all be titnoases wero 1yin, havine been tiaqght' to do co by the police and in addition the fleeident Mauiutrat4 wan Aloo lying as he was not on good tere with him. 41Ot there could poeeibly be eome doubt ov, to wito altered the fiurea on thepynt vouohere, thv caanot be nny doutt at all t.lwt the apçe3.iant had put bie owxz finger or tbwbprintu as thoae o. izported pcyeee of variouu me purportedly paid out au witaeuuee' allowancee. The QVidC2W, if accepted, tutablivheo the guilt of the upellent beyond any reaaonable doubt, end thze .ie no reaeon whateoever why such evidence ehould not be accepted! UIVI rogrd to the taco it A.e the miimuni preecribed by law. I formally certify thit this appeal hae been lodged without any mufficiont ground of complaint. It 1i ooerding1y aumarily rejected. (PillLIP xio) .Dar en 18th Parch. 19700