IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI CRIMINAL DIVISION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 149 OF 2000 (From Original Conviction and Sentence in Criminal Case No.2290 of 1999 of the Principal Magistrate’s Court at Makadara). GERALD OUMA…………………..…………………………APPELLANT VERSUS REPUBLIC…………………………………………………RESPONDENT JUDGMENT The appellant’s appeal now is only against the sentence. He accepts the conviction as proper. I note that the appellant had no previous conviction. It took nearly a year in the court below to finalise a case so simple as this one. Think of the mental torture and stress the appellant must have gone through during all the said delay. I reduce the sentence to six years imprisonment, plus two strokes. V.V. PATEL JUDGE 23/1/2002
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