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The High Court partly allowed a criminal appeal, quashing a stealing conviction after finding the prosecution failed to call a material witness, creating reasonable doubt.
The conviction was unsafe because the identification evidence was not watertight; the prosecution failed to eliminate the possibility of mistaken identity as the conditions for identification at night were not adequately established. The prosecution did not prove the case beyond reasonable doubt.
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The High Court allowed the prosecution appeal, set aside acquittals for gang rape, held the trial court misused witness statements, and entered convictions.
The trial court lacked jurisdiction to determine land ownership and improperly treated a civil dispute as a criminal matter; failure to critically examine evidence and procedural errors nullified the proceedings.
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The conviction was quashed and sentence set aside because the prosecution evidence was inconsistent, material witnesses were not called, medical evidence lacked corroboration, and the appellant was entitled to benefit of doubt.
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The prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that the appellant committed armed robbery by stealing a mobile phone and threatening the victim with a machete; flaws in chain of custody, witness contradictions, and non-production of sim card or receipt did not undermine the conviction as corroborative evidence was sufficient.
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The High Court dismissed a civil appeal over an alleged debt, holding that the appellant failed to prove the claim and calling no material witnesses justified an adverse inference.
The prosecution failed to prove the essential ingredients of the offence, including principal-agent relationship and corrupt solicitation/acceptance, beyond reasonable doubt. Delayed reporting, contradictory evidence, failure to call material witnesses, and improper shifting of the burden of proof rendered the conviction unsustainable.
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The prosecution failed to prove the offence was committed on the dates alleged in the charge sheet, did not call material witnesses, and the trial magistrate imported extraneous matters into the judgment, resulting in a conviction not supported by evidence beyond reasonable doubt.
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The prosecution failed to prove the charge of armed robbery beyond reasonable doubt due to failure to call the material witness (the threatened/injured person), lack of prior description before the identification parade, and flawed identification procedures, rendering the conviction unsafe.
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