Since appearing before a Ho District Court, Philip Caesar Kumah, who is suspected of murdering his girlfriend and has been remanded in police custody, has submitted a bail plea at a Ho High Court.
The accused’s counsel, Mr Raymond Akpatsa, said that they submitted the bail application because they felt the High Court, as a supreme court of judicature, had all of the necessary authority to admit the accused to bail.
He claimed that the Attorney General (AG) had not objected to their affidavit of motion for bail grant .
Mr Akpatsa said that although the AG submitted an answer to their bail application, it only asked for strict bail conditions that would include the accused’s presence in court once he was scheduled to appear.
The bail plea was adjourned by the High Court until April 12, 2021.
If the High Court rejects the application, counsel says the next step is to appeal to the Court of Appeal.
Meanwhile, at his second hearing before a Ho District Court, the perpetrator was remanded in police custody once more.
Mr. Robert Addo, the presiding judge, adjourned the case until April 7 of this year to enable the defense to conclude its inquiries and make the requisite changes to the indictment and fact sheets.
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The judge’s order to the prosecutors to change the charge and fact sheets was right, according to the accused’s counsel.
The accused was charged with murder, but “the charge sheet did not determine the main aspect of murder; it grossly claimed that it induced the death of the deceased, but all of those ingredients were absent in the evidence; the fact is quite scanty,” he added.
According to him, the charge sheet’s short information sheet even claimed that the police were conducting their inquiry, and it was on this grounds that they begged the court to remand the offender.
Counsel claimed that since the matter was still before the High Court and a bond order was pending, the District Court decided to wait for the High Court’s decision before deciding what to do next.
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
