When the charges were read to the Accused, he denied the Charges and a plea of NOT GUILTY was accordingly entered.
By denying the Charges, the accused placed in issue all and every essential ingredient of the offence with which he is being charged.
In attempt to prove the charge, the prosecution first called the said Mukisa Brian who testified as Pw1.
Pw1 tetified that he knows the accused person commonly called Emma, who was a bouncer (security personnel) at Asante guest house; that on the 29th May, 2024, the accused had just come back from prison and he
found Pw1 sunbathing outside the said Asante guest house and he uttered towards Pw1 words that: “You thought I was going to die in prison?”; that the accused then followed Pw1 as he went into the guest house which prompted the other security personel present to ask him where he was going and that Pw1 did not wait to hear what the accused replied them.
The Accused opted to give evidence on Oath.
He was sworn in and testified as his own witness, as DWI -KIIZA EMMANUEL
He testified that it was early morning of 24th May, 2024 when he had gone back to his former work place to change clothes, having been released from Amuru prison whereof he had served a sentence of community servoice; that he had been told that he had used a weapon to cause grivious bodily harm to Pw1, a charge he had pleaded guity to and thereby sentenced to community service; that at 7:00am when he reached his former work place, its whereof he met the complainant (Pw1) and he could not pass without greeting him and he uttered Luganda greeting words “Wasuze otya” but he, the complainant (Pw1) did not reply and he entered back into the premises of Asante guest house, whereof, the Dw1 also entered thereof; that he found the Askari at the gate who came close and Dw1 explained to him his predicament and asked him to go into his former room and get for him changing clothes so that he can go to Atiak and do the community service; that the Askari refused and told Dw1 to wait for their boss (Pw2) and ask for all that belongs to him.
FULL JUDGEMENT
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