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Sexual Offence-defilement-appeal-second appeal-victim being a child of tender years-appeal against the decision of the court to convict on the evidence of a child of tender years without comprehensive corroboration-jurisdiction of the Appellate Court to only entertain matters of law-determination of child’s ability to understand the meaning and nature of an oath-child having identified the appellant as her assailant-court can convict on the evidence of a child of tender years in a case involving a sexual offence-ingredients that must be proved for a charge of defilement to stick-applicable principles-whether the prosecution’s failure to call the other children who were at the scene was fatal to the case-whether the persecutions case was proved to the required standards-Sexual Offences Act section 8(2) Evidence Act section 124

Evidence - criminal evidence - how a first appellate court is required to deal with the evidence - identification evidence - appeal challenging the strength of the evidence adduced in a trial - whether the evidence was sufficient to support the charge - burden of proof - accused person not under any duty to call a witness to buttress his defence - no general obligation on the accused to prove his defence.

Criminal law - robbery with violence - ingredients of the offence - whether all the ingredients/variants of the offence must be proved in order to establish the commission of the offence - Penal Code section 296(1), (2)

Evidence - identification evidence - recognition and identification - identification evidence of a single witness - how courts should handle such evidence

[Ruling] Civil Practice and Procedure - appeal - striking out of appeal - application to strike out appeal - ground: record of appeal did not include some exhibits produced before the trial court - whether the omitted exhibits could be brought on record by way of a supplementary record of appeal - whether the record of appeal was incurably defective - Court of Appeal Rules rule 80, 85(2A)

[Ruling] Civil Practice and Procedure - appeal - extension of time - application for extension of time to file notice of appeal - discretion of the court in extending time - principles which the court will consider in considering such an application - Court of Appeal Rules rule 4

[Ruling] Civil Practice and Procedure - appeal - extension of time - application for extension of time to serve notice of appeal and file record of appeal - unfettered discretionary jurisdiction of the Court on such an application - principles which the court will consider and apply in exercising its discretion - Court of Appeal Rules rule 4

Evidence - identification evidence - duty of  court to test evidence of identification especially where the identification is said to have taken place at night or under circumstances rendering a positive identification difficult - identification and recognition - reliability of evidence of recognition than identification

Evidence - burden of proof - defence of alibi - duty of the prosecution to displace the defence where it has been raised by the accused - duty of the trial court to give due consideration to the alibi defence.

Criminal law - robbery with violence - second appeal against conviction and sentence of death - whether the conviction was supported by the evidence - Penal Code section 296(2)

Evidence - criminal evidence - evidence of a single witness - how a trial court is to handle such evidence - identification evidence - recognition - concurrent findings of fact made by a trial court and the High Court on first appeal - circumstances in which the second appellate court could interfere with such findings

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