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High Court of Tanzania

This is the second level in the Judiciary justice delivery hierarchy. It has both appellate and original powers on civil and criminal matters. It also hears appeals from the Courts of Resident Magistrate, the District Courts, and the District Land and Housing Tribunals in exercise of their original, appellate and/or revisional jurisdiction. The High Court is divided into Zones and specialized Divisions. 

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January 1972
Republic vs Anyosisye s/o Mwakyando (Criminal Sessions Case No. 114 of 1972) [1972] TZHC 298 (1 January 1972)
1 January 1972
Republic vs Chepe Kalangali (Criminal Sessions Case No. 116 of 1972) [1972] TZHC 299 (1 January 1972)
Whether circumstantial and testimonial evidence proved the accused’s gross negligence in the toddler’s death (manslaughter).
* Criminal law – Manslaughter – Allegation of gross negligence causing death – Requirement that prosecution prove causation beyond reasonable doubt. * Evidence – Credibility and admissibility – Voluntary testimony by non‑compellable spouse and lay witness statements. * Circumstantial evidence – Use of attendant facts (locked house, accused leading searchers, post‑mortem mutilation) to establish unlawful killing. * Defence plea – Alternative account (child with mother) creating reasonable doubt as to accused's culpability.
 1 January 1972
Republic vs Raphael s/o Songareti and Another (Criminal Sessions Case No. 21 of 1972) [1972] TZHC 300 (1 January 1972)
Voluntary confessions and overt acts, even if the substance proved non‑poisonous, supported convictions for attempted murder.
Criminal law – Attempted murder: elements — intent, commencement of execution, and overt proximate act; admissibility and weight of voluntary extra‑judicial statements; accused's mistaken belief about the lethal quality of a substance not a defence to attempt.
 1 January 1972