The Appellant was charged with and convicted of the offence
of Robbery by the Vuga Regional Court. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
His appeal to the High Court of Zanzibar was dismissed save for the sentence
which was substituted with one of fifteen years’ imprisonment. Still aggrieved
by the decision of the High Court of Zanzibar the Appellant appealed to the
Court of Appeal. There he raised several grounds of appeal including that he
was convicted on a wrongly applied provision of the law; the case against him
was not proved beyond reasonable doubt; there were irregularities relating to
the conduct of the identification parade at which he was identified and that
the courts below based their decisions on the evidence of a single witness. The
Court of Appeal considered the grounds raised by the Appellant.