Kai-Kai & 13 Others v The State

Supreme Court dismissed appeals against conviction on counts of treason, misprision of treason and murder in relation to the 1987 coup attempt. Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, 29 September 1989

This judgment contains important principles relating to the crimes of treason and misprision of treason, the burden of proof in murder cases based on circumstantial evidence, hearsay evidence, alibi evidence, accomplice evidence, co-accused evidence, tape-recording evidence and whether or not misdirections by the trial judge to the jury in a very lengthy summing up amounted to a miscarriage of justice or bias.

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