19700904 TZCA Dar es Salaam
Convictions quashed due to insufficient and unsatisfactory evidence linking appellant to the offences; procedural errors in questioning and sentencing for corporal punishment.
- Citation
- 19700904 TZCA Dar es Salaam
- Parties
- Appellant: Selimani; Respondent: The Republic
- Court
- TZCA
- Jurisdiction
- Tanzania
- Judgment Date
- 4 September 1970
- Procedural Posture
- Criminal Appeal / Judgment
- Outcome
- convictions quashed, sentences set aside
- Legal Topics
- Breaking and Entering, Stealing, Corporal Punishment, Criminal Procedure
- Source Language
- English
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Parties
Selimani
Appellant
The Republic
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Criminal Appeal / Judgment
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether the conviction for breaking and entering and stealing was supported by evidence
- 2 Whether the procedure for imposing corporal punishment was correct
Ratio Decidendi
Convictions quashed due to insufficient and unsatisfactory evidence linking appellant to the offences; procedural errors in questioning and sentencing for corporal punishment.
Court Disposition
convictions quashed, sentences set aside
Orders
- Appellant to be released and set at liberty unless lawfully detained for another matter
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