Kabwiso Issa v Uganda [2003] UGSC 36 (26 October 2003)

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C). \par }\pard\plain \s18\ql \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s18\qc \li0\ri0\sb38\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs31\b\ul\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 CRIMINAL APPEAL No.7 OF 2002 \par }\pard\plain \s21\qc \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\cs35\b\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid4009085 \par }{\cs35\b\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 BETWEEN \par }\pard\plain \s17\qc \li0\ri0\sb5\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\tldot\tx6283\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\cs30\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 KABWISO ISSA\tab APPELLANT \par }\pard \s17\qc \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s17\qc \li0\ri0\sb120\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs30\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 VERSUS \par }\pard \s17\ql \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s17\qc \li0\ri0\sb187\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\tldot\tx6149\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs30\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 UGANDA.....\tab RESPONDENT \par }\pard\plain \s26\ql \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s26\ql \li0\ri0\sb82\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs33\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 (Appeal from the Judgment of the Court of Appeal at Kampala (Mukasa-Kikonyogo, DCJ, Okello and Mpagi - Bahigeine, JJA) dated 20}{\cs33\b\i\super\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 th}{\cs33\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 December, 2001 in Criminal Appeal No.81 of 2000) \par }\pard\plain \s21\qc \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s21\qc \li0\ri0\sb86\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs35\b\ul\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 JUDGMENT}{\cs35\b\ul\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 }{ \cs35\b\ul\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 OF}{\cs35\b\ul\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 }{\cs35\b\ul\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 THE}{\cs35\b\ul\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 }{ \cs35\b\ul\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 COURT \par }\pard\plain \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb197\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 This is a second appeal arising from the decision of the Court of Appeal which confirmed the conviction by the High Court of the appellant for the offence of defilement C/S 123(1) of the Penal Code Act. \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb5\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 It was the case for the Prosecution in the High Cou rt that on 9/12/1995, at Bukasa Village, Zirobwe, Luwero District, the appellant - Kabwiso Issa defiled Bazara Suzan (PW2), a girl under the age of 18 years. \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb62\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs32\insrsid4009085 \par }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 The facts accepted by the courts below are simple. The appellant was employed as a herds man and l ived in the home of Mukiibi Karoli (PW3), the father of the victim of the defilement. On 9/12/1995 at 8.30 a.m. Mukiibi asked Bazara to accompany the appellant to tend cattle in a swamp called Namuraga Plain. The swamp is 6 miles away. The two took out th e cattle to the plain at 10.00 a.m. While in the plain the appellant teased Bazara to the effect that he would give her 25 strokes on her buttocks for insulting him. He then gave her one stroke, got hold of Bazara, threw her to the ground and defiled her. B ecause of pain, Bazara cried out. She bled and as a result blood stains remained where she had been defiled. She ran home and reported the defilement to her father. The father and Budalla, a neighbour, went to the scene accompanied by Bazara. The appellan t was found in the vicinity of the scene of the crime and when confronted with Bazara's complaint, he denied defiling her. PW.2 took her father and Budalla to the scene where the group saw fresh blood stains on the ground. When PW.2, her father and Budalla

returned to where appellant was left tending cattle, they realised that the appellant had disappeared. PW3 drove the cattle home before he reported the incident to Zirobwe Police Post. In the evening of the same day, the appellant reported to PW3's home a nd apologised to PW3 for having defiled Bazara. \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb5\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 Subsequently, PW.2 was examined by medical personnel who confirmed that she had been defiled. The appellant was arrested and charged with the offence of defilement. At the trial, the appellant gave unsworn b rief statement in his defence. He simply said that he remembered some of the events of 9/12/1995 but did not mention them. He claimed that prior to that date, he had worked for PW3 for four months for which PW3 had failed to pay him his wages amounting to 80,000/= and because of that, PW3 had planted this case on him. The assessors rejected this story. So did the \par }\pard\plain \s24\ql \li0\ri0\sb101\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\cs28\b\expnd-4\expndtw-20\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 2}{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 learned trial judge who convicted the appellant and sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment. The appellant appealed to the Court of Appeal which dismissed the appeal. He has now appealed to us. The appeal is based on two grounds: \par }\pard\plain \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb230\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 The first ground of appeal is couched this way by Mr. Bwengye, counsel for the appellant: \par }\pard\plain \s25\qj \fi720\li720\ri441\sb235\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin441\lin720\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 The learned Justices of the Court of Appeal erred in law when they confirmed the appellant's conviction of defilement and sentence of 15 years imprisonment basing on verbal confession purportedly made by the appellant to the complainant's (victim's) father, PW3, whereas the trial judge did not consider this confession as corrobora tive material necessary to support conviction of the appellant, thus occasioning a miscarriage of justice. \par }\pard\plain \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb235\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 Clearly this ground offends Rule 81(1) of the Rules of this Court in that it is argumentative and narrative. Be that as it may, Mr. Bwengye contended that in convicting the appellant the trial judge did not rely on the appellant's confession to PW.3 yet the Court of Appeal relied on it; that S.25 of the Evidence Act prohibits admissibility in evidence of this kind of confession and he cited }{ \cs28\b\ul\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 Kataiha Deo Vs. Uganda}{\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 Criminal Appeal No. 129 of 2001 (C. A) (unreported) in support. Mr. Wagona, Principal State Attorney, supported the decisions of the Courts below, contending that apart from the confession there was other cogent evidence to support the convictio n. We do not quite appreciate Mr. Bwengye's submission that the trial judge never relied on appellant's confession to convict him whereas the Court of Appeal relied on it. In our opinion there is nothing wrong in the course adopted by the Court of Appeal. Mr. Bwengye did not give any reasons for his strange view that section 25 of Evidence Act forbids admission in evidence of appellant's confession to the father of the complainant. The section reads. }{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 "A confession made by an accused person is irrelevant i f the making of the confession appears to the court, having regard to the state of mind of the accused person, and to all the circumstances, to have been caused by any violence, force, threats, inducement or promise calculated in the opinion of the court to cause an untrue confession to be made". \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs32\ul\insrsid4009085 \par }{\cs32\ul\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 Kataiha's case}{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 (supra), itself a decision of the Court of Appeal, is clearly distinguishable on many aspects but the relevant one is that there, the appellant's confession was excluded because members of the Loca l Defence Unit (LDUs) extracted it after tying up the appellant Kataiha and threatened him with a gun. \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb230\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 In this case, there was overwhelming evidence against the appellant. He had been in the company of Bazara when they went out to tend cattle. After he ravished Bazara, she reported this to her father who went to the scene and found the appellant nearby. Af ter PW3 confronted the appellant with Bazara's report instead of responding properly, the appellant first fled the scene abandoning cattle in the field but only to return in the evening and confess his sin to PW.3, the father of the victim. \par In our opinion, and with respect to Mr. Bwengye, there is nothing in the}{\cs32\insrsid4009085 }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 provisions of section 25, which in this case would prohibit admissibility of}{\cs32\insrsid4009085 }{ \cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 the appellant's verbal confession to PW.3. The Court of Appeal was fully}{\cs32\insrsid4009085 }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 entitled to treat the said confession as evidence that corroborative of the}{ \cs32\insrsid4009085 }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 complainant's testimony. Even if the trial judge did not directly refer to the}{\cs32\insrsid4009085 }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 confession, he treated the conduct of the appellant at the scene when he ran away as conduct inconsistent with his innocence. Therefore ground one of the appeal must fail for lack of merit. \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb226\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 The complaint in the second ground is that the trial Judge did not follow the provisions of Clause (8) of Article 23 of the Constitution when he sentenced the appellant to 15 years. Mr. Bwengye asked us to reduce the sentence to 7 years. On the other hand, Mr. Wagona, quite properly in our view, conceded that the words which the learned trial judge used when imposing the sentence of imprisonment are ambiguous. When imposing the sentence the learned trial judge ex pressed himself this way - \par }\pard\plain \s25\ql \li0\ri0\sb149\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\tldot\tx1670\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 "\tab he is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. The}{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085 }{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 period he has been on remand shall be taken into account against the whole sentence"}{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085 \par }{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 In the Court of Appeal, the complaint against the sentence was that it was excessive. That Cour t did not agree. The complaint before us, in effect, is that it is unlawful in that it contravenes Clause (8) of Article 23 of the Constitution. The Clause states: - \par }\pard \s25\qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s25\qj \li0\ri0\sb230\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 "Where a person is convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment for an offence, any period he or she spends in lawful custody in respect of the offence before the completion of his or her trial shall be taken into account in imposing the term of imprisonment" \par }\pard\plain \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb226\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 This court has on a number of occasions construed this clause to mean in effect that the period which an accused person spends in lawful custody before completion of the trial should be taken into account specifically along with other relevant factors before the court pronounces the term to be served. In the appeal before us it is not clear how the period from 9/12/95 to 29/9/2000(5 years) spent on remand "will be taken into account against the whole sentence" of }{\cs32\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 15}{ \cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 years. It appears the judge meant that the sentence commenced from 9/12/95. This would be absurd because a trial court can not sentence a person before conviction. We accordingly allow ground two. \par For the foregoing reasons, the appeal against conviction is dismissed while the appeal against sentence is allowed. The sentence of }{\cs32\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 15}{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 ye ars imposed by the trial judge is set aside.}{\cs32\insrsid4009085 \par }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 We think that the trial judge intended to sentence the appellant to imprisonment for ten (10) years. This period will run from 29/9/2000, the date the trial judge imposed the }{ \cs32\expnd4\expndtw20\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 15}{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 years sentence. \par }\pard \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 We understand that prison authorities experience difficulties in determining remission periods in cases where convicts are sentenced in terms similar to the words used by the trial judge in this case. We would therefore give the following guidelines to tr ial courts. When sentencing a person to imprisonment a trial judge or magistrate should say- \par }\pard\plain \s25\ql \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s25\qj \li0\ri0\sb5\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\tldot\tx6581\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 "Taking into account the period of.\tab years (months}{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085 }{ \cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 or weeks whichever is applicable) which the accused has already spent in remand, I now sentence the}{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085 }{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 accused to a}{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085 }{ \cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 term of.\tab , years (months or weeks, as the case}{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085 }{\cs36\b\i\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 may be)" \par }\pard\plain \s20\ql \li0\ri0\sb19\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\cs32\insrsid4009085 \par }{\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 In such an event the sentence imposed shall be definite and be treated as excluding the period spent in custody on remand. \par \sect }\sectd \marglsxn1277\margrsxn1277\margtsxn1314\sbknone\linex0\colsx60\sectdefaultcl\sftnbj {\footerl \pard\plain \s16\qr \li-153\ri841\widctlpar\faauto\rin841\lin-153\itap0 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\field{\*\fldinst {\cs29\b\f39\fs28\insrsid4009085 PAGE}}{\fldrslt {\cs29\b\f39\fs28\lang1024\langfe1024\noproof\insrsid4009085 6}}}{\cs29\b\f39\fs28\insrsid4009085 \par }}{\footerr \pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085 \par }}\pard\plain \s20\qj \li0\ri0\sb62\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\cs32\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 We direct that this judgment be circulated to all courts, prosecutors and prison authorities for guidance. \par }\pard\plain \s27\qj \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s27\qc \li0\ri0\sb19\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs37\b\i\dn6\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 Dated at Mengo this 27th day of October 2003. \par }\pard\plain \s24\ql \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sb29\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 A. H. O. ODER \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sb24\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sb96\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 J. W. N. TSEKOOKO \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sb19\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sb96\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 A. N. KAROKORA \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sb14\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri15\sb283\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin15\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs28\b\insrsid4009085 G. W. }{\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 KANYEIHAMBA }{\cs28\b\insrsid4009085 \line }{\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sb86\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs28\b\insrsid4009085 \par }{\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 C. M. KATO \par }\pard \s24\qc \li0\ri0\sb19\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 {\cs28\b\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT \par }\pard\plain \s22\ql \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid4009085 \fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\insrsid4009085\charrsid4009085 \par }}