Nyamwa v Uganda (Criminal Appeal No. 413 of 2014) [2017] UGCA 72 (7 November 2017)

Jurisdiction: Uganda
Citation: Nyamwa v Uganda (Criminal Appeal No. 413 of 2014) [2017] UGCA 72 (7 November 2017)
Media Neutral Citation: [2017] UGCA 72
Court: Court of Appeal of Uganda
Case number: Criminal Appeal No. 413 of 2014
Judges: Kakuru, JA, Egonda-Ntende, JA, Obura, JA
Judgment date: 7 November 2017
Language: English
Type: Judgment
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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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