Kasata v Uganda (Criminal Appeal No. 16/1994) [1994] UGHCCRD 3 (13 December 1994)

Flynote

Criminal law

Case summary

On the issue of an excessive sentence court held that an appeal cannot be lodged against a sentence of one month imprisonment. Where more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed at the same time and the sentences are to run consecutively court takes the aggregated as one and in this case the sentence was three months imprisonment and held that the appellant’s complaint is justified because on the three counts he should have been given a chance to pay a fine and imprisonment imposed as an alternative. That upon the decision to impose a custodial sentence such sentence should have been made concurrent not consecutive as the circumstances did not call for consecutive sentencing.

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