19801017 TZHC Dodoma1

IN TEE HIGH COURT OF TANZANIA AT DODOMA APPELLATE JUR!SD!CTION HIGH COURT CRIMINAL llPPE.i'i.1 NO• 120 OF 1977 ORIGINAL CRIMINLL CLSE NO. 436 OF 1976 OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF I'1BEYA DISTRICT 11.T MBEYl1. :BEFOREi T.M.M• .:ISUGUJILA Esc;t_. SENIOR MAGISTR11TE Sil.MU MVIAITUYiJ\. •••••••••••••••• • •••• APPELLANT ( Original Accused) Versu.J THE REPUBLIC•••••••••••••••••••••• RESPONDENT (Original Prosecutor) JUDGEME~T f \ S/iMll'Wl, if., '- During the night oi; January 23/24, 1976, the "tailoring \ shop1i of one Asukile Ngawala was ~roken. ,into .. and forty pieces of dress material, a new pair o.f trousers :;iade for .one Al:i,. Bilauri and •.Sui ting -~ • \. • • Cl • , • • ' ' ' were stolen therefro°;• :· One _of_ ~l?f pieces of .. d.;1'e!3s material belonged to one Josephina ICibona. She h,q.(l sent 1 it to 11.sukile. for makin_g a dress. On February 17, '1977 1 -;~·.1e appellant, Sru:ru Mwai tuka, was . ' f I • ~ • • ' i. ,; I "" ; t \. • ~. • ... " ' /. co~victed of the shopbreaking and was sentenced to a tern of four years 1 imprisonme:µt. I agree with Mr Saffari, cc1!.Ilsel for. the' .. Republic, tha:t the appellant ts guilt was .. pr~ved b~ /,md reasonable doubt. The appellant .·.:.;. f • • • ~ .had sold Josephina Ki bona' s dress t:tateria.l to one- Moses ICi:twika a few days after the sane was st--,len from Ngawa.la 1 s shop. Ngawala, Ki twika ancl Josephina identifi-~d. the t:taterial positively. In his defence the appellant made no pretence to claim that the dress muterl,a.1 belonged -to him~ "Ind fed, ·the appell::i.Jit .said' nothing 6n ·.the . dres:i material. In the d:efenci! the appellant asserted that the pair of trousers which he was wearirlg at· the tir.ie .of Jus .'arrest in July,. : -•..• /2 2 - · !97~# ·e.nd which the. ~oution cJ.aiD8-d to be :Bilau:ci•o new pa;i:i of trousers stolen fron Ngawnla 1 s shop was in fc1ct his own property,· His claim did not, however, affect the weight of the case against hiI:l. In ray view it would be wrong to fault the learned trial magistrate's decision. The appea.l ·stands disnissed in its entirety. /-:··;:~- · . .... _______ -------(-t~-:3--('j >~- ,.__A,,lbc-:\._____., ·v"' .. B. A. SAMLI.TTll JU.DGE •. Delivered this 17th day of October, 1980, in the presence of Ml:' Saffari, counsel for the Republic. · B. A-. Sli.MA TTA JUbGE.·