Odwaka Vs Uganda (Criminal Appeal No. 178 of 2012) [2017] UGCA 69 (28 September 2017)

Jurisdiction
Uganda
Citation
Odwaka Vs Uganda (Criminal Appeal No. 178 of 2012) [2017] UGCA 69 (28 September 2017)
Media Neutral Citation
[2017] UGCA 69
Court
Court of Appeal of Uganda
Case number
Criminal Appeal No. 178 of 2012
Judges
Kakuru, JA, Egonda-Ntende, JA, Obura, JA
Judgment date
28 September 2017
Language
English
Type
Judgment
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Criminal law
Case summary
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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