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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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August 1976
Republic vs Samson s/o Ugula (Criminal Sessions Case No. 41 of 1976) [1976] TZHC 196 (23 August 1976)
Suspicion of poisoning insufficient for murder conviction where medical and chemical evidence were inconclusive.
Criminal law – murder by poisoning – circumstantial and eyewitness evidence – forensic proof required to establish cause of death – mishandling of biological specimens undermining chemical analysis – acquittal where guilt not proved beyond reasonable doubt.
 23 August 1976
Republic vs Ilango Kimwii and Others (Criminal Appeal No. 80 OF 1976) [1976] TZHC 194 (19 August 1976)
Child identification corroborated by clothing, assembly and blood evidence sufficed to convict five accused of murder.
Criminal law – Murder – Identification evidence by child witnesses – Conditions for reliable visual identification at night – Need for corroboration of single-witness identification – Circumstantial corroboration (assembly at accused's house; clothing and bedsheet with deceased's blood group) – Alibi assessment.
 19 August 1976
Republic vs Mbwala Njiku and Others (Criminal Sessions Case No. 49 of 1972) [1976] TZHC 45 (6 August 1976)
Sole eyewitness’s inconsistent, possibly biased identification rendered convictions unsafe; accused acquitted.
Criminal law – Identification evidence – Single eyewitness whose testimony contains inconsistencies and omissions – Credibility and reliability – Unsafe to convict; doctrine of common purpose not applicable where presence not proved.
 6 August 1976