19830716 TZHC Mbeya1

lU T2 IGiI CflURT 0 TUTZJiTTIji iYP L2T APPELlATE JtJRIED1CTION CRtMINLL LPPlAL 1T0.91 02 1981 OTLTGL7AIj CRiJI12L CLS7 TO24 02 1981 02 T: D12'TPICT COURT 02 IRIITC-L D$T2I8T AT 121110-A BEORE ILPAYA 7$-: • R2&IPEiT-T .2CIE-TEA1tE- FAUSTI.L1 vcrrJuo rffJ L) 1 P'T Li.L Tt PODr1\Th 1Th 0hare: lot Count: Hous breakinj c/s 294(1) of the Penal Code Cap.16 of the 2nd Couiot: St:alin c/s 265 of tie Poial Code Cap16 of the Laws. Kotitt J' Notale Kibasa, 272, herein t:o complainant havind on 22/12/1980, locked his houoe 9 and'oone to lTlTnbula. for gn employmorrb subsoque±J.3f came only to find to: houo b'kon into and his rodio cassette, and ithangas sto1n. A: reports nbout. suh. theft were made to the police, and the scorch aproad tQ.suspsctod placeS, :2redib1y testified that, he found Fitistin.. Simon_ the appellant heoih Wi th th said 'Rdio Cassette al L11andege.Th a)pi1ant was tc to thepolice station witi -the said Rdio Cscotto, vv.` 1.ich fact waC crr nud by PVT2 1 who tondrd the Radio. Cassettee as Ethibit !i While tb ajq lant c:: laed the ratter was planted on him (ro:oiln t), because of the hatred gneinted between the complainant nod die nppeilan,-. a1gedly because the foner 'was f1irUj wth- the appcii ant t s nife the tii5' ; MgistntQ foun 0 pro sec ion cae 0 credible, rejected the cefenee, nrdhonce. toe conv±ions, which carried sentences nfioprosoii::en of thr'oeyears, and six non -ths,qn Counts. (i). 4 and (2) respectively; ie -Oppeliant has appealed against coriction. I have imposed appropriate. scrutiiy upon' too evidenee,, and agistrate p'P;5ar toir ye strayed frbrthamightcourse 1he case .doe ,ee. lly stand 0 or IL fn11 on too issue of erecii1ility of wi-tness.es. In thi$, rai, I-''djd the triaJ. Lagis-trate rind. -that the naterirl witness PW2 1 goye. edcnce in a straight .foiward;an U fii 'pionner and -truthfu1ly oe very -thin xd :nuagre: cr ps.amiiieticn. that,othe donp1ainant po'ienced, at tue obva,ously tirlorous h -i d of tc appdll-int, dd ]. t iing to erodes.lhe credibility of the complainant. I believe a o id. tie trial court, that, the oomplainaht Is 1,iouoq. was broken into, nod a Radio Cassette and khangas stolen therefrom. It- is true in my view, as was, found, by the trial equrt,. 4 th't, o appelJii s found with fi' R-'dio Cassette on 6/1/1981. Iith such an inevitable fineir, :nd with oilj a lanse 0 f io weeks after - - - theft, a peri. I eoe'ijr - oonaLy r coot, eonoiderin- thc typo of. property stolen, tue doct:±:oe P cot ooi: =tcn of oroprty recot1y 3tO1efl WOO riot1y apalied The circur. -ooco of We core oc vroo :'o. .tly Durceivod by tic trial eourt, inevitably orP irrosietobly juottup 02 iffereioce that the appellant woo the era, voo erPee into W ilTolrJe, oid stole. th..proporty in question. ?.o cc ritcns were desrr.P, crC. the :c±crecs, aie eier, a statutory ijin100ui 9 orr:aizi±hstly :odoretc, in tau cvrat,. the appoal is in totality disrisscd Delivered this iota cay of ovey, 1983, '. E. J. Katitu Judge N.