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~PPELL~TS JURIJDICTION l·IIGH ,::-:._.[);?'.~' .::RIMI!~i.l, ,,PP ~,.L NO. 117 OF 1977 o (Origi~nl C1c:;_rnL,al C<1S8 i'1c-o 120 :::>f 1976 of tlv: District Court of Tarirne Oistrict ::-.t 'l'nrime B,:furu J" ::., E" f-'lfuko, Ese .. ; Senior J\ic1gi,;trate) V(:::rsus THE REPU}3!° -IC o o o o o o o" ,, • n o o o o " " " o o . o " " " , o " " o o o o o o o o o o o o " " " o . , RSSPON1JL:NT CJ-J;,.RGE: Office br'-:,'ik::.n0 nnd 3t·,-;,ling c/s 296(-:i.) of the Pc'.!nal Cock:., LUGi\KINGL<.i, 9 Jo ~ The Distr5ct C~urt of ~ar:i~~ c nvictad the nppellant of office br 1.=ukin-1 ;,_:-!d st,.:~'.J -:_:1go He ·.·JiL :3 .~n-: ,~nc,2d to thr•.],; y-_,ars' imprison,11c,rit. He was _pr-=~v.i.ou~;J.y -~nplDy.,,d -:it Ut,:~gi DCliry Farm i;-, whose~ office a numb,~r yf 1wx;:i.. c.i..n s \d_,r;) k ·)t)t; ,-1hc,n N,1thew I(i:lto ( P\·,:'2) 1,-.Jc:nt to work ~-,1 16 April, 1976, Ct Gc,)d T•'riday, he found th,:, cupboard open and m,~dicir1c,s spill•.~d on tb,:: fl:Jor., H,? also detectcci a brolc:"1 wincl.-)Wo He susp,::cte:d the upDe:l "_c.'.,::i: wlir:i h ·.cd. r-:C,c 11t:;.y b.,.-,n di,,mi.ss,;d from the Far,-: and wc,,·:t to r,-:=!_")Ort -:::_.-, th,; ;::icliceu Th~ s~ 1 ~: d~v K·t~ ~nd D/C Manus (PW1) arriv~d ~t the appcll~nt's house., They f,)und hi1:1 c )mine: out h-:,lc1ing twc Jv.gs., 1 ~hen h:: saw thc-;;m he threw the b;-: s dmm nnd t. ,ck to his h.:· 11s., lL: was chas<':d

and caught., In his }OCk~t t~ey found a bottl~ of m~dicine., In the two bags, which ,~l~.o b,.;long,~d t. the r'2rm, t!·,cy fcnn.d more~ medicin,~s o 1\no. i-n his h US(:: t:10•..- fnund a tarpaulin, th,..: proD .,rty of the l~Drm, ,nd the appe :... ,:c,,.t' s :::;j_,::it:ks which were st:1in :d with t:1e m-··dicine spilli.::d on th,.: of:'.'ic-.~ fl<.)0r.. In court tht: apoe1l,mt ch~ ·_j_-::ci th-c charae c1,1d stated th :t ~h0 bnas were plnnted on him by K~to. Like: tiiC:! -criF.l.l magistrate I find tl·wt tl-12 def,.,nr:,~ was absurd. Even if K--·c:) cc11-1ld ·,)·.~ se:id to huvc _oLmt ~d the bags on th,~ app2lV.:mt which I u,:1 c"rt.":'. ,1 h.:. did "lot - th,, appc-lL.1:-1t had i3till to expla::.. n his acquisiticn of th~ tarpaulin and the st~ins in his cloth8So This h," never :,tt.:::·,1lJi::.:,d to doo H -, th-..•n must h;:;v'" lied nhout !Cito' s role. There wus furth-2r evidenc,2 from l( •to ,,md M;:-.irt:i.n Shem ( P\-JJ) that the cupboard 2nd m~d~.cines w~r~ intact when th~y closed the office on the previous d~yo The br~aking 2nd ste~ling thus took place the night before t:1"' a.,pt:1.Lmt' s 2rrest., Consic.'kiring th~t si1ort lapse of time it is irr ·sistibl2 to conclud~ th~t th,~ ~pp~l 1 ~~t himself committed th~ acts C(;mpL-:ir:-,d of., I t:-,,:rcf;:re fi d n:) m-..:ri ts in this t:1,"J;_,_.,,:-cl ::>.s the sentence awr1rd,2d 1:2s nlso th•2 minimum under the l,::iwo It is uccordingly dismiss,;d in i b; ,.mtirt~ty o Ml'I/ANZA., 17 /10/77 0