Omari Khalfan versus The Republic

Omari Khalfan versus The Republic; Criminal Appeal No 107 of 2015: Court of Appeal of Tanzania at Tanga (Unreported).

• Criminal Procedure

• Assessors – what is the role of assessors in criminal cases?

Held:-

To avail the assessors with adequate opportunity to put questions to witnesses from both sides and the same should be clearly recorded.  Two, is that when the case on both sides is closed, the judge is required to sum up the evidence for the prosecution and the defence and shall then require each of the assessors to state his opinion as to the case generally and as to any specific question of fact addressed to him by the judge and record the opinion.