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Court of AppealOtherCriminal Appeal No. 9 of 1994· [1998] KECA 91 (KLR)
Mutunga Munyao v Republic [1998] KECA 91 (KLR)
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#Kenya's Court of Appeal paused a criminal appeal because the original trial documents were missing, ordering the Deputy Registrar to trace them before the appeal could be decided.
What this practically means
#Executive summary
#This document is a brief procedural order of the Court of Appeal at Nairobi (Omolo, Shah and Bosire, JJ.A.) dated 9th July 1998 in Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 1994, in which Mutunga Munyao appealed against a conviction and sentence imposed by the High Court of Kenya at Machakos (Osiemo, J.) on 10th December 1993 in H.C.CR.C. No. 1 of 93. The court recorded that all the documentary exhibits produced and available to it were copies, and that the original documents could not be found even in the trial court's file. Rather than determine the appeal, the court adjourned it and stood it over generally, directing the Deputy Registrar of the Court to trace the original documents, including the Inquiry Statement allegedly made by the appellant, and to make them available to the court so that it could do justice in the matter. No appeal grounds were decided, no decision of the High Court was affirmed, varied or reversed, and no costs order was made. The order is administrative in character: it preserves the appeal pending recovery of the original exhibits and does not lay down any binding proposition of law for lower courts.
Key legal issues
#Legal principles established
#Court orders
#- 1.Appeal adjourned and stood over generally
- 2.Deputy Registrar of the Court directed to trace the original documentary exhibits, including the Inquiry Statement allegedly made by the appellant, and to make them available to the court
- On appeal from
- High Court of Kenya at Machakos
- H.C.CR.C. NO. 1 OF 93
- Jurisdiction invoked
- Appellate jurisdiction over a conviction and sentence of the High Court (Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 1994)
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#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "Mutunga Munyao v Republic [1998] KECA 91 (KLR)", Case Analysis (1998). Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 1994. Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keca/1998/91/eng@1998-07-09
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