The Appellant was charged before the District Court of Manyoni with the offence of injuring animals contrary to sections 325 and 326 (1) of the Penal Code, Cap 16. The particulars of the offence alleged that at around 10:00 hours on 7/11/2013 at Mwanzi village in Manyoni District of Singida Region, he wilfully and unlawfully wounded six heads of cattle on several parts of those livestock using a bush knife. Those heads of cattle belonged to Hamisi s/o Lang we (PW1). The learned trial magistrate, A. E. Chilongola-RM convicted the Appellant and sentenced him to serve four (4) years’ imprisonment and to pay compensation of Tshs. 300,000/=. Being aggrieved with his conviction and sentence, the Appellant filed his first appeal in the High Court. The High Court invoked section 45 (2) of the Magistrates Court Act, Cap 11 and transferred the hearing of the appeal to the Resident Magistrate’s Court of Singida to be heard by W.E. Lema-PRM on extended jurisdiction. That first appeal was dismissed, prompting the Appellant to prefer this second appeal.