20081203 TZCA Dodoma
The convictions were unsafe due to the trial court's failure to consider the defence, non-compliance with section 231 of the Criminal Procedure Act, reliance on weak and insufficient identification evidence, and the application of double standards in evaluating the evidence against different accused persons. The first appellate court compounded these errors by relying on extraneous considerations and misstatements of fact.
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- Armed robbery
- Identification evidence
- Right to fair trial
- Misdirection by lower courts
- Failure to consider defence
- Section 231 criminal procedure act