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The High Court reduced Ally Mustafa’s custodial sentence from three years to two years for escaping lawful custody, finding the original term exceeded the Penal Code maximum.
The High Court of Tanzania largely upheld convictions from consolidated criminal appeals, but reduced the unlawful assembly sentence and quashed one conviction.
The High Court at Dar es Salaam dismissed Daudi John’s appeal against convictions for stealing by servant and escaping lawful custody, affirming both sentences.
The court upheld a breaking-and-stealing conviction, but in a separate trading-and-escape case it reduced consecutive jail terms to absolute discharge.
The High Court summarily dismissed a criminal appeal after finding no sufficient ground of complaint on the record.
The High Court allowed a criminal appeal, holding there was no sufficient basis to reasonably suspect the appellant of possessing stolen property, so the arrest and custody were unlawful.
The High Court upheld a conviction for escaping from lawful custody but quashed a robbery with violence conviction because the evidence was contradictory and insufficient.
The High Court upheld a cattle theft conviction but quashed a conviction for escaping lawful custody because the prosecution failed to restart proceedings after withdrawal of the earlier charge.
The High Court quashed convictions for house breaking, stealing, and breaking into a building, but upheld the conviction for escaping from lawful custody.
The appeal was partly allowed: convictions for stealing by servant and possession of bhang were upheld, but escaping from lawful custody was quashed.
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