Ssemiyingo v Uganda (Criminal Appeal No. 137 of 2012) [2018] UGCA 42 (30 July 2018)

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Criminal law

Case summary

Court considered the mitigating and aggravating factors and held that sentencing should serve the purposes of retribution, deterrence and rehabilitation of the convict and thus reduced the sentence to 12 years with consideration of the time that the appellant had spent in custody

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