REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT KITUI CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 102 OF 2015 RICHARD MUTIE MBINDYO..............APPELLANT VERSUS REPUBLIC ……………….......…… RESPONDENT (Being an appeal from the original conviction and sentence in Kitui Chief Magistrate’s Court Criminal Case No. 510 of 2015 by Hon. A. S. Lesootia S R M on 09/06/15) RULING 1. By an application dated 28th December, 2015, the Applicant seeks leave to appeal out of time. The application is based on grounds that the Applicant was not able to appeal within the required fourteen (14) days because his relatives who were to hire a lawyer to represent him failed to act due to financial constraints. 2. The application is unopposed. The State through Ms. Amojong responded that they had no reason to oppose it. In the premises, I grant the Applicant leave to appeal out of time within 14 days. 3. It is so ordered. Dated, Signed and Delivered at Kitui this 1st day of March, 2016. L. N. MUTENDE JUDGE
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