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THE UNITED RE:roBLIC OF TANZ,lNIA TN THE. ·R!GH COURT OF TANZANIA AT DAR ES Sl\.LAAM . -- ~-,a-~-:,.~ •.,....,.... . APPELIATE JURISDICTION HIGH COURT GRn1INAL APPEAL N0.200/94 ORIGINAL CRIMINAL CASE N0.2.56/94 OF THE DIS CTIOI'' COURT OF ILALA.L DISTRICT. AT KISUTO - D1 SALAAM ~e.fo:r::_e_:_ Ruangiaa, Esqr, Resident Magistrate PAUL JAMES MAJUKANO 8c ANOTHE~ • •• • •••••• ~ o " .. • • • • • • • • • APIE LI.ANTS (Original Accuseds) versus THE 'UNITED RERJBLIC • • • • • • • • • • • • , • • • • RES FONDENT' (Original Prosecutor) J U D G M E. N T: ,A 1-eorned Resident Magistrate 1"hose nrune is respectfully undiaclosed. · here., eitting ip. the District Court of Ilala r.t Kisutu after he had heard . and recorded evidence from ten prosecution witnesses and three accused persons tAB well as their only defence "'itness by the 21.9.94 he reserved judgment to the 26.9.19940 For reascns that are not clearly available from the proa&edinga of the case instead of that first mo.gistrate delivering judgment, o. succeeding other learned Resident MagiRtra.te lll,)t only wr•te .a well.-4:-easoned judgment on the 5.,10.1994 but upon convicting all the three ~ccused persQns.of offences in the two counts, the a.ppellants PAULO JAMES MAJUKANO and Ml;CHAEL ANDREW IEMA who· had appeared at the trial as the first and thtrd accused respe!Stive].y were each sentenced to? year$ im};rispnm~nt o~ ~~ch of the two counts~. The second accused going by nQme of SEVERIN GODI MGE:NI who defaulted attendance on date of .ju~t and has for that reason todate a wnrrant of arrest roving his whereabouts had in •a rather an unusual and onprecedented manner also filed an appeal registered~ High Court Criminal Appeal No~. 209 of 1994 and he also purports to ·challenge both that ':onv_iction and sentences he earned in absentia,. Since I kr!,".)~:. ·of'no procedure · Whereby a person aggrie1r-,d by 1:1. <"""!'..... ~ --t:i r-7" :1nd sentence may challenge 2 the same while he is :1t large unuer 'the Criminal l>ro-ceuu;ire ict, 199-5 let me make iii clear "that 1ihe appeal . , of SiVERllT GODI MGEHI has· not been consolidated ~i'th the pres~ni appeal of ihe -named two; tha,; is PAULO J .i.il'IES MJi.JUlGJW and MlCHAEL ,.i.NDREW LEMA.: I will from iime 1io time be referring 10 SEVERIN GODI MGENI as the second accused. J-..s revealed in the ehar~e sheet 1ihe prosee1;1iion-ellege4 'llla'C . on 'tihe 141ih day of February 1994 a~ abou."t 8. 30 hrs al Ma-,a·Jd- area the twu appellants and the seo6nd aceuaed a!t-er ,hey had conspired to steal a motor :vehiole, did :infaci; -•'i,iel the ino1or vehi•cle , . .regis~re'tion nwal)er iZD 4-554 make . _Land rover Di.soovery and '1ihey thereby made arra.n.g.eaents -io take it ~o zambia bu1i they were arres1ietl a1i Swuba1r1a.nga on · 'lheir way :to z2mbia b~fore· crossing the bard.er.. In a tid 'IO auppor't libese all6gcn;iuns the pro.seou't-ion o:f.:fered evidence . had. ~~pos~d . -to begin with before the material a,y . that. is ---,_ on "the 12.2,.1994, the PW1 having parked his landrover ~•Clvery wi-th ante number :rzn 4554 a1i .Ohio. ·Flat in Msasani are:a as he had never gqne. out on the foll~ing day which ··was ~ Sua.l~3, he dis0overed on 1ihe fateful day "thai. that· mcrtor vehicle had gone missing. A report was senli t·o the police at Oys~erbay police station. Information appears ~o have . ' \een relayecl 10 border posts of :runuuma arid Namanga, resides. the PW1 and_-the PW2 travelling to Mbeya and ?unuuma. , ... It , was. ·..whi.le . the PWt an<l the PW2 were travelling from -'.lunduma b~oditlg·!or Mb~1a when on reaching MQozi area they saw amd '\aenilt.:i~d the· land rover Discovery by a distinclive dent raa1k vhich w~.s being driven towards :Cundu..m8,. The PW1 and tb@ iawa eattse.d 'their piok up mo"tor vehicle to be reversed and tt ~oolc o~s~ of tha1; land rover Discovery which wes being dr'f.-wen ·, .,_., behind a pick up double cabia registrl'-nion number ·:r~ ·;~981 a '.ioyota Hilux. In "the course of 'lha't · chase in h01 pursuit, upon the race reaehing the junotion of 1he road to the border wi"th Tanzania and zamb~a and the road to Sumbawanga,. lihe chased mo.tor vehioles opted to 'take 'the latter direction~ For whoner knows this border Area i i ~ay be recalleJ that ~he road to Su.mbAwanga passes nearb1 ~he ?wu1uma police station at · 1hioh a _report was made by the PW1 _and PW2 and. it was tbE PW6 who was assign~d by his OCD to arm. llimself. wi "till a sul> -ma-ohille gun anu 30 rounds of_ ammunition •. I.a . ... ; - ~his armed chase con1iinued with "'lhe chase un~il Al a point a~ L;ela lhey ~equested ~h~ ~olioe at thal post to ~~laj a .~ioe message to Sumbewanga. At a point lt:lloM\Ne~en to SWJWawanga they saw the two mo~or v@hiele• whj..oh lhBY ~rled by all means of ci_vilizeo. signalling so the~ -ihey would slop but in vain. ?he chased motor vehi•les·~hoa.e . •o ~igzag along the road so ~hHt the motor vehicles. o! ! . • " 1hese . wi'tnesses . could not•over"tak(. 1iheir .motor vehiele.a. . lhe PW1 while 'tiaking position in 'the ldJw. -cabin ~r1·ed • aim. at the mo,."or vehiol~s bu:t hG lrJ.ssep .~e:f ore the, la~d- to:v-e.r. 'l):1.acoverjt 6-t;Opped. · It is i·hen 1ihai_ ihe ?oyota. Hilu ,11opped as well._ ~here wos re"tber con.:fli.~na a.t.4qc,~. as ·t9 who of the Elppellants and the seQond accu.sed: W8J'8 ; : / tound . in the two motor ve.h.i.oles. :But i.he learned Rit$1·4@t Magi&"tl'&~e . ,who wrote . judgm.e:n't eppears to hB"fe. f~d ~ . end b.el~ev:6(l that 'the firs"t appellan~- and 1he eeoond ···aooue~d were to~ in ~he l~nd.J'ov0r Disoovery wbi.l~ ~he foraer was a mere p~&senger and the latter was driver end 1he •eoond iippellan't wss a driver in the Toyota Hilux ana I 1ih.inlt he: . -wss eorre•l. . :Che appell~nts and the seoond ao-ow,Qd ·w.eZ".e . . pu:c . under err€st by the PWS be!ore the PW7 who .is the , ~awenga o/o GID officer·Brrived a~ ~he s~ne aooollLP,eAiEd ty a ·con'lingent· of several polioe officer&- .who we~ to motu1i a road block along that road. several exhibi1is . ,. including a registration cards for the motor. vehioles and a 'iemporary import oard Ref. No. DSM/LR/V0/2/94 and igni'ri.011 keys were se.ized and kep't by the police who took the 'thr~e auspao~a ·,.:o sumbaw~nga polioe station. the suspects were later repa'Griated "toge"ther wi'th relevant exhilite to. :Dar- e.a Salaam !or fur1iher invealii.ga't1.ons. Prom .1:rvea~i,ga-;ioi.s "tb.ut were oarried ou"t 'the prose- cu~i.oo ~u.gll a central oar :t-egi,r~ry' s PW3. a Teg-1.e~~iQZ\. card number ?ZF ;315 whi-Oh wes iou.na on the Land Rover ~isoov~17 it was iound bO be thai of~ trailer ~he proper~y of Hamza HaUani Msemo who was nou called ~ogive eviaen•e !or reasons be.st known to ~he proseou~ion. ?4e PW3 also found out 'tiha1i the 1andx·o-ver Diaoove~ was the property of nenge Pow€r project. From the customs depa~me~~ ~.hrough the PW9, PW10 and PW11, ~he expor~ o! mo~~~ v~hicle p.&rmi~ had l, een :f ():t'g.ed :(or fo n.1: r.~ 2:u=wne •: ]!.,irst the original fJ. ·• 4 ... :re~tion ce.rd had ·to be re~d . but th& appell.Mts . had been .foun-4· . with .both the ~gietration · card . ~d the ~rmi ,. . t "7hioh ,;,as net ~ . ardinary ' practice. Secondly, the. mime of the aut_horizing officer and· s~gnatura . are· not th:OOe of a P;!r"on ,,me i~ lato,-11 to ~ \dOrldn.e: in their d&partment •. Thirdly the et .. ~ on the permit did not be_ar t~ code nwnber of the .; . . . . . . : autbe>ru;i.ng _officex- of thei:c- de:r,artmettt an~ fourthly permits whi.e.k have be-en lavful.ly issued by their· department are usua+l1 stamped on_the ·i-1.ght Imn.d side unlike the oue underdispit~ which is stamped on the ! • • lett hud s ide •. And from investigations carried_ cut by the Pi5 who is-an 4)xpert witness~frOltl the Jl}:l.<St~J,h:i and forenuic aci~nce \ .. depe.rtment, he found O'\lt the.t the griginal cha.sis and engine num~ers <>f • . the ·land ro;ver had been tempered with by nGt only era.sing th•m but al.BO ' ' -~ . . . . .. · ~»lnci,ng th()Se ntunbers w1t}J. ne"' forged ~bera. Fino.Uy fr0$!1- the .. . ., ' I - , ✓ ieti~e -,~f the IW8, who is M. employee of ~ i l Hoi;ol, b Der e► . . 'Sol~,· he t~ndere( a l~dger 1s a~s.1--.n rei'ister ·to ehow tMt .one .· · £'£.Tl!('g lCAR!UKI had lle\1-e:r lodgod t:1.t thtJ.t Hotel. : .·· . . . . !• . .. !?he f ~ t etppellnnt Md t.old the trir.u. court th!lt he ho.d ·Cll\ the 1·-.2.1994 ~htl.aed the Lruld Rc>"ter :Disco,-ery frc:n ~ lbtriek ~iuld. Jrho is o. Kentnn by mi.tiontllity in _the prasence of the !114. ..,,ho cotl:f'irme« . .. . ·, -witw.-,;g:tng . ' the sb.le ~. . . tztons·t-..cti,on. . . . , • - 1. ·The first appell~t.. t,J.so .. . ex:p~iiled • - • how . he wae·arrested·o.s·he . wae tretvelling to SumbUY~ngti, . on :· D. buaintes·b'ip. . '·The second ncctised ".'l.nd the second. nppell-mt ~xpl,.ined h~11• they .were tlft'ested ., · 'Vhile · they ~,,ere ff"lVelllni,: in o motor "Tehicle Tm 6981 Toyot.1 Hilu ~ble- co.bin ,., hile they ,., ere on their 1,•rJ_y-· to Sumbo.,, 1nnga • . .A~ I pointed . out . e~lier . on in thia j~dgm0nt. ·the . .sPcond ' . l~ar.x,ed Rosi.dent Mogi~te in a -..,ell-l'e"Soned judgment M~.lyscd th~· evidence ttt11 the. prosecution _!\h.d the. defence before, he ho.d enrefully (itli,ly'sed :t'he .ieeues. in ~egr,rd to the off enc . . . .. es c ~ d ; convicted the· l'l.ppell-,.nts ,:,.il1\ ·the sc,cond ;;tcouaed of th," offences ch~.rged 1Jl. tho t,,,o c0lll1te.• en my ~ ' I ht.we c,refully gone throu!Th the judgment of the· . second lel'Jrn:ed _ReBident Mogistrnte ~d I have o.lso cono~dered n.t length the tt,,o·_~dum _c,f o.ppe~J. by: the two a.ppellants. A_fte,:. I hc.d h~a1"d the ~ n t s of the:_t:wo appall=-.nts on the 1.5 ~ounds _of o.ppetll by the first ~llont ,xid ·.- . . . . .· the. ?-grounds of· tippeal. ·filed by_ the ee~-0nd c::,~llroit,. . . _ before l ·he~d the learned Seni~- St=i.te· .Att~~ »us Phillip_ t.or the . respond~ Re~llc. - ; Much OB the ·responden~ R9:pub1ic ,support ··d· conrlctit:\n of the o.ppell.Mts. Afte]'.' going through the proceadi.ngs, I .run in .thr-i int~rest of justic"! obliged to nul.lify the whole ~ .--i:tl t.:.i'ld set ~idt, the judg,nent ~ - 5 .... the second 1...-;l'hed ~~iMnt Magistrate for his :,.lack of ~isdicti•~· 'l'he prObeecling·~teciJ,~o 27.9.1994 before thel·aeeond:.1s~~ed Resident_ ., ,,,-~. ' . ( ' KqiJib~ ~ Plhli,O'''pir~t.-or -'- ~aeorded ~- h~ving i:nf' r d th& eOU't ...... te'•11•• ,.., W ,.... 1$. . . - ...... I magistrate Mr. (tir~t tPiAl Reaidont Magistratet (no.me 1-·i thheld)) RM hrus trr-velled. We J;JrtJ.1 f <,r onother he""ring dite. t, That is ,,.1h,3n upon the pr.iyer asked not ·being granted the second lenrned Resident Magistn.te ordered th~t judgment hnd to ~e ·delivered oa the· 5~10.1994 without complying ,.,,1th the provisi'ona of section 214 ~f th~ f . c.P~A. 1 1985. Under tho.t section ~y eecond mngistro.te .,,, ho_ tak~s over o. partly heard ct1Se or a wholly tt-ied cue ~ not · only bound to Woi'lll , . ·,., : l \ the accwsad(s1 on tri~l tha.t he is entitled to ask the eourt either to . ·, . . I "'x-. ;;~·-'; proceed .y.i,th the case frcm where it was lo.s~ adjourned·• without recalling - ~· ' : · ~· . ' .,./ ~f Jitnesses who h~d o.lre~dy test$fied thtlt is·but also that the accuaed(s) . ;;·#fol are legD.l.ly entitled to o.sk the court to ht\ve ony 4tnesaes wno .}l~,:t. 9-lready· testified recalled, · In n c::tae of Abdullah Hee~ v R, /'(970.7 !1 ·d· -, - \ • :I .· ..fJ}lf,D•: ·279 the Hon. El-Kindy Ago J. declued the proceedings ~ nul_lity :-~$qA.use the second mo.gistrete had upon failure to comply with;o. pr~vision ' .· .... ":ti; '. !. ·•:simt-le.r to s ection 214 of the CPA 1985 hcked jurisdiction~ Iz,. t~t :,•.--? F ••• ·o•,:• f • •\ "-'coj•~:'in ,,,hieh M aceusud h~d been ch~ged ,,,ith Md convicted 1,1ith offences . :t·".'t, . '. of fraud.lent falsa accounting nnd stealin~ by p.iblie se~t ~ontro.r,- to I section~ 31? (b) roid (c) ttnd 270 o.nd 265 of the Penal Cod~, tv o magiatrates 1 ha<! t!ruCCOSFia&ly tried th0 case, one doing the prosecution\ "O}ld/th~ .case / / . othar the defr:-nce ~a well !lS the deli very- of judgment it ,,,tis heldC \ !' (I quote) \ ,/\ "it doesnot appear th~t the second magistr!>.te ··< \ complied 1,dth the provisions of section 169 of \ · · \ the. Crimino.l Procedure Code (Amendment) Act \\ I ; No-=. 'iO of -1969. This provision makes it mllll(lntory, \ for the to.king_ (over) magistro.te to inform th• . ~ \ person on tr,~_:;cl._n9t only that he wd$ _toking over the oruse but tmii.:t~~~wrson on triQl· is entitled to ~ . ,. '. - '·· I the court to--~~~f all the witnea~es··who nad· given \ evidence pr.c,,1~kiy. · This court hna held in the eo.se , 1 ~:. ~ ... " ., . ~· / \ of DAUDI RAffiAEL:~.. MASANJA v., ~ :Crim. App. t<fo,. 77/69; ! .. ~~~ ,., : . ' . . ·~ ; . f .. . that the pre~~te_it~ ~o the s~cond ._magistrate• s •.-: ~/, ..... ~·.. -~ .;•· ' ' exe:~cising jurisdic :ion is., the· informing of. the nec.used - 6 ... t>t his right ruid th,.,t if .this 1s DO CO!l1l)lie4 "1ith, the sor:ond mogistrnte w~d have no j\i"'.'ii::dictio'.'1 c1d the trbl ~,ould ·be t"I. nullity. In th:..~~ ~'-So, ~.:f the_ eecond mo.gistrate h?l.d ® jur:j.sdi.:;·~-- ,·-:-. to try this co.se :ind therefore the - tr:b.l ,,ms nU:iJ.~.+.y. tt le. th~ instnnt tippe~1, it ia n~ I ho.ve indic!'.l.ted o.bove tho.t the eeomd. mt.1gistrnt9 upon his f ....ilure t:o eo:·::t_Jly with the prm-;i.siOJlS ,r · section 214 o; the c.P.A. 1985, he lo.eked ju:-isdictio:1 011d the ~t~~ judgmetlt . tho.t he wrote --.nd then delivered waa o. nullity. It i,e quite ~ t e th!tt the justice of the cti.se le!l.dB us to nd.c& this finding in a. .,erioue .case like this one. Surely ·the first ti-ia.1 lem:-ned m a g ~ knew very :well th~t he would tro:vel before be set the cbt~ ff!f' judgment to be 26. 9, 1991+ but only to letlve it ·undelivered., The roo.d to justice 11itlY be Ul%'nished by beho.viour like t~t of th-e fi-:-st t'ri.ru.. mo.gietftlte. lt ie hffl,,ever -expected tho.t the second le~ed R ~sident Mo.gistrote mil c~- tully nbide by the l€l'W of procedur& ineteo.-1 of \!O.Sting effOl"t in mo.ttere b&,1o.oks jurisdiction. ~tly, su.bordinnte courts have J:)eeu' en_joined to strictly obi@ by pi-otitrl:ons of section 192 of the ·CPA ond GN 192 piblished ~ ~he 1.?.1988 ill r e ~ to the condu~ting of pi-eli.miMry he1U'ing. I notice ri.tb rr: gret that·· no :pr<=?liminory he~ring was conducted in this ctlS8. And if only I ~ ~dd the h~ndtaiting rr-': the f:i:rst -tri~ Reeidont ~ ~ t e t \ ~ to ho.w be-en difriouJ.t far the typist s.lona to re"'d but nlso tar thiF court. We hope- he m~ 1J1tpt-oYe on it in the interest of justice. Without ~judice to the foregone commente 1 ffir' the r0Mbfte thct t he.ft ~.-ee_mpte&t to give I see no rer.\sons vhy the other grounds ·of e.~oJ. !thoa.t~ m·8rl:t :in:r eonsid'.)r-:-.tion here. Conviction is 'IU,tl.Shod Md sontcnces o.l"e eet .mde. As f: .~ tha grounds of tippecl far the secOb.d accused, I ~ · ~ t'ro:n conside .. :'_11.g My of them bac::tuse thoy tound tboir ..,~ into . ! d.on 1 t fi!ld fllYS$lt obU.gad·to th.is oourt through suspicious moons. ~~ ay revisioMl powers to the benefit oft\ conn.ct ,tfho is .O.t l1lrgO ~ , as I would .have done ho.d the second c.ppell:tttt beeG iZ1 pris(II). ht ft4l,od to o.ppea.1. Unlerns oth~nrise lawfully held1 the two appell.o.nts· nrunel.r PAUI.O .J.~: "i'C! " ' _,..."':,' • ·(\ :. .id MICHAEL A.NmEW !EMA ohCAlld ·'be re lensed.. · f orth....,,it~. ~ .... - l!!M ' (EXTE~D JURISD!m'ION) AT DAR ES !3.'. '.J•:'-t