Court Of Appeal Dismisses Attorney General’s Appeal Application Against Agbesi Woyome

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal application brought by the State against businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome in the GH¢51 million judgement debt saga. 

Mr Woyome was last year acquitted and discharged by the High Court, presided over by Justice John Ajet-Nasam, on two counts of defrauding by false pretense and causing financial loss to the state. 

But the State filed a notice of appeal a day after his acquittal on the grounds that the trial judge erred in law in freeing the businessman. 

The State wants the judgement acquitting Mr Woyome to be set aside. 

According to the State, Mr Justice Ajet-Nasam, erred in law when he said the prosecution failed woefully to establish a prima facie case against Woyome when the judge had during the trial, established a prima facie case against Woyome and called on him to open his defence. 

The State asked the Court of Appeal to curtail Woyome’s freedom and imprison him accordingly on the grounds that the trial judge failed to take the State’s evidence into account. 

However, the Court of Appeal upheld the earlier decision by the High Court in acquitting Mr Woyome of any criminal conduct in securing the judgement debt. 

GBC