Muhoozi Vs Uganda (Criminal Appeal No. 097 of 2013) [2018] UGCA 84 (2 October 2018)

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Criminal law

Case summary

The court held that as an appellate court, they can interfere with the decision of the trial court if it was reached at erroneously based on a wrong principle of the law amounting to a miscarriage of justice. That though there was no arithmetic deduction, the trial judge mentioned the time spent on remand as a factor in the sentence reached.

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