The Appellant was charged with and convicted of four counts,
namely, conspiracy to defraud, forgery, obtaining goods by false pretences and
uttering a false document. He was accordingly sentenced; the sentences were to
run concurrently, so he was to serve a ten-year prison term. Aggrieved by the
conviction and sentence he appealed to the High Court where he raised the
following grounds, that the judgment of the trial magistrate lacked logical
reasoning, that the Trial Magistrate did not comply with section 214 of the
Criminal Procedure Act, that change of Magistrate prejudiced him and that the
trial Magistrate wrongly placed the burden of proof upon him.