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| Case Number: | crim app 44 of 03[1] |
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| Parties: | ERICK MONGARE MUMI vs REPUBLIC |
| Date Delivered: | 30 May 2003 |
| Case Class: | Criminal |
| Court: | High Court at Kisii |
| Case Action: | |
| Judge(s): | Isaac Charles Cheskaki Wambilyangah |
| Citation: | ERICK MONGARE MUMI vs REPUBLIC[2003] eKLR |
| History Advocates: | Neither party represented |
| History County: | Baringo |
| Case Outcome: | Allowed |
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There was ample and credible evidence that the girl child was sexually assaulted. The only issue with which the court had to grapple was that of corroboration: this being a sexual offence combined with the fact that the witnesses whose evidence implicated the appellant in the commission of the same offence were children of tender years. But they knew the appellant and immediately mentioned the name of the appellant to the grandmother Priscah Kerubo (PW1). In my view there was ample and good evidence justifying the conviction.
But to me the sentence of 14 years imprisonment for a first offender is totally excessive.
I reduce it to 7 years imprisonment and 4 strokes. It is ordered accordingly.
DATED AND DELIVERED ON THE 30TH OF MAY 2003
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