Kisukari Mmemo versus The Republic

Kisukari Mmemo versus The Republic; Criminal Appeal No. 192 of 2013:  Court of Appeal of Tanzania at Dodoma (Unreported).

• Criminal Procedure

• Sentence – when an appellate court may interfere with sentence?

Held:-

An appellate Court will interfere with the sentence passed by a trial court in   the following conditions:  Either the sentence is manifestly excessive or inadequate or that the sentencing court ignored to consider an important matter or circumstances which ought to be considered and that the sentence was wrong in principle.