Criminal Practice and Procedure- Robbery with violence -appeal-appeal against conviction and sentence-appellant convicted and sentenced to death-appeal on the ground that the required standard of proof was not met-where there was no proof of the occurrence of the offence of robbery and hence the involvement of the appellant in respect thereof did not arise-whether conviction and sentence of the appellant was based on sound evidence- Section 296 (2) of the Penal Code

Criminal Law robbery with violence appeal against conviction and sentence identification evidence where there was doubt in the identification of the appellant in the prevailing circumstances whether the identification of the appellant was sufficient to sustain a conviction Penal Code section 296(2),

Criminal Practice and Procedure - rights of an accused person right to have the trial conducted in a language that he understands and an interpreter Constitution of Kenya section 77(2), Criminal Procedure Code section 198

[Ruling] Judicial Review-mandamus-application for orders of mandamus to compel the Respondent to hear the appeal-application arising from court decision to quashed the decision of the Respondent in which the Respondent had declined to hear an appeal filed by the Applicant in which the Applicant challenged tender No. DF 400/TKL/EM TOOLS AND TEST GEARS in which the Applicant lost the bid-arguments as to cost-applicant having come to court in good faith-whether it would be fair to load the applicant with all the costs of this motion-effect-validity of order

[Ruling] Criminal law- Preliminary Objection by the accused before trial-where the accused had been detained for a period in excess of 14 days as provided by the constitution-duty of the prosecution to prove to the court that the accused was brought to court as soon as was practicable-where the explanations given for the delay by the prosecution were not satisfactory -whether the objection was merited

Constitutional Law-rights of an accused person - rights of an arrested person to be brought to court within fourteen days after being arrested- failure by the investigators-duty of the courts to uphold the rights of accused persons charged with criminal offences-duty of the prosecution to act according to the law for the protection of all-whether violation of the constitutional rights without explanation could lead to the acquittal of an accused -Sections 72(3), 72(3) (b) and 72(4) of the Constitution.

[Ruling] Criminal practice and procedure-preliminary objection-application of-where the accused persons were held in custody longer than the law requires-whether the explanation adduced by the prosecution was reasonable-whether the accused persons were entitled to an acquittal-Penal Code sections 203, 204; Constitution section 72 (3) (b), (5)