REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NYERI CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 81 OF 2003 ROBIN MUNENE WARUI……………………………………………..APPELLANT Versus REPUBLIC……………………………………….……………………RESPONDENT CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 83 OF 200 ANDREW MUTUGI MWANGI……………………………..………APPELLANT Versus REPUBLIC…………………………………………………………….RESPONDENT (Appeal against judgment by J. M. Githaiga, Resident Magistrate, in the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Baricho, Criminal Case No. 631 of 2002) JUDGMENT These two appeals were consolidated for hearing. The learned State Counsel M/S Ngalyuka concedes that trial of the Appellants herein was a nullity because the prosecutor was not qualified in terms of Section 85 (2) Criminal Procedure Code. Accordingly, the said trial is hereby declared a nullity and the Appellants’ appeals herein allowed. The conviction of each Appellant be and is hereby quashed and the sentence imposed upon him set aside. Each Appellant be set at liberty forthwith unless lawfully detained in some other cause. Dated this 2nd day of December 2004. J. M. KHAMONI JUDGE
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