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Criminal law 19950526 TZHC Tabora

19950526 TZHC Tabora

The High Court upheld convictions for robbery with violence and confirmed fifteen-year mandatory sentences, rejecting challenges to identification evidence and joint liability.

  • Robbery with violence
  • Identification evidence
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Minimum sentencing
  • Robbery-with-violence
  • Identification-evidence
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Criminal law 19880805 TZCA Dar es Salaam2

19880805 TZCA Dar es Salaam2

The appellants were found to have acted together in committing the offence, with credible eyewitness testimony and physical evidence outweighing their alibi defence, which was rejected as false.

  • Acts intended to cause grievous harm
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Alibi defence
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Criminal law 19840910 TZCA Dar es Salaam

19840910 TZCA Dar es Salaam

The Court of Appeal dismissed a second criminal appeal, upholding concurrent findings that the appellant joined in forging a payment voucher and stealing goods.

  • Forgery
  • Theft
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Appeals
  • Joint-criminal-liability
  • Criminal-appeals
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Criminal law joseph mwamakamba vs the republic 1984 tzca 17 29 august 1984

joseph mwamakamba vs the republic 1984 tzca 17 29 august 1984

The Court of Appeal upheld a conviction for stealing by servant, finding the appellant and a co-accused colluded to access and take money from a depot safe.

  • Stealing by servant
  • Burden of proof
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Credibility of witnesses
  • Minimum sentences
  • Criminal-law
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Criminal law 19780802 TZHC Mwanza1

19780802 TZHC Mwanza1

The High Court upheld Charles Mang'ondo’s cattle theft conviction but quashed Juna Andrea’s conviction, finding mere accompaniment was insufficient.

  • Cattle theft
  • Circumstantial evidence
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Cattle-theft
  • Circumstantial-evidence
  • Joint-criminal-liability
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Criminal law 19770905 TZHC Dodoma

19770905 TZHC Dodoma

The High Court dismissed a criminal appeal against a conviction for stealing from a motor vehicle, holding the appellant acted in concert with the first accused.

  • Theft
  • Sentencing
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Criminal-law
  • Joint-criminal-liability
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Criminal law 19770106 TZHC Dodoma

19770106 TZHC Dodoma

The High Court dismissed two criminal appeals against convictions for stealing by servant, holding that the evidence showed common intention and shared proceeds.

  • Stealing by servant
  • Minimum sentence
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Stealing-by-servant
  • Common-intention
  • Mandatory-minimum-sentence
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Criminal law N

N

The High Court dismissed four consolidated appeals against convictions for cattle theft, holding the evidence, confession, and corroboration were sufficient.

  • Cattle theft
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Evidence evaluation
  • Criminal-law
  • Cattle-theft
  • Evidence
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Criminal law 19740726 TZHC Dodoma

19740726 TZHC Dodoma

The High Court dismissed consolidated criminal appeals, upholding convictions for stealing by public servant based on corroborated circumstantial and documentary evidence.

  • Stealing by public servant
  • Appeal against conviction
  • Circumstantial evidence
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Criminal-appeal
  • Stealing-by-public-servant
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Criminal law 19720312 TZHC Dodoma

19720312 TZHC Dodoma

The High Court partly allowed a criminal appeal, upholding Ezekiel’s conviction but quashing the convictions of Charles and Hasan for lack of proof.

  • Theft by public servant
  • Receiving stolen property
  • Burden of proof
  • Joint criminal liability
  • Criminal-law
  • Theft
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