REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA
AT NANYUKI
CRIMINAL REVISION NO.27 OF 2020
JAPHET GITUMA MARTIN...................................................................APPLICANT
VERSUS
REPUBLIC..............................................................................................RESPONDENT
(Revision of the Original Sentence dated 23.8.19 in Nanyuki Criminal Case No.965 of 2020)
09.04.2020
Before Justice H P G Waweru
In Chambers
ORDER ON REVISION
1. I have examined the trial court record.
2. The convict herein, JAPHET GITUMA MARTIN, was on 23.08.19 sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the offence of Stealing in a dwelling house contrary to Section 279(b) of the Penal Code.
3. Because of the current Coronavirus (COVID -19) crisis in our country, and in an effort to de-congest the prisons, and in exercise of the powers of the Court under Article 159(2) of the Constitution and Section 362 & 364 of the Criminal Procedure Code, I hereby set aside the sentence and substitute therefore the time already served.
4. The convict shall therefore be set at liberty forthwith unless otherwise lawfully held.
5. It is so ordered.
DATED AT NANYUKI THIS 9TH DAY OF APRIL, 2020
H.P.G. WAWERU
JUDGE.
DEPUTY REGISTRAR
NANYUKI HIGH COURT