This is an application for Review of the decision of this
Court in Criminal Appeal No. 241 of 2014 handed down on 3/2/2016 in which the
applicant’s appeal was dismissed. The notice of motion is premised under rule
48(1) and 66(1) of the Tanzania Court of Appeal Rules, 2009 (the Rules) and is
supported by an affidavit deponed by the applicant.
In the High Court of Tanzania at Mtwara, the applicant was
charged with and convicted of the offence of murder contrary to section 196 of
the Penal Code [Cap 16 R.E. 2002], and was sentenced to suffer death by
hanging. It was alleged by the prosecution that on 18/6/2011 the Appellant
hired a motorcycle operated by the deceased from Nagaga Village to Nakarara
Village within Masasi District in Mtwara Region. Upon reaching Nakarara Village
he took the deceased to his home where he led him to the fields and attacked
him to death with an iron bar.