Ojok & Anor Vs Uganda (Criminal Appeal No.183 & 193 of 2013) [2017] UGCA 71 (7 November 2017)

Jurisdiction
Uganda
Citation
Ojok & Anor Vs Uganda (Criminal Appeal No.183 & 193 of 2013) [2017] UGCA 71 (7 November 2017)
Media Neutral Citation
[2017] UGCA 71
Court
Court of Appeal of Uganda
Case number
Criminal Appeal No.183 & 193 of 2013
Judges
Kakuru, JA, Egonda-Ntende, JA, Obura, JA
Judgment date
7 November 2017
Language
English
Type
Judgment
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Criminal law
Case summary
Basing on a previous Supreme Court holding, court held that trial courts are required to deduct from the sentence they were to impose upon a convict after taking into account of aggravating and mitigating factors, the period the convict has spent in pre-trial custody. Failure to do so rendered the sentence illegal.

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