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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FIJI
\par Appellate Jurisdiction
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\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 2. SIMELI KAKAIVALU
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 Respondent
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 Mr. H.M. Patel for the Appellants}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15927191 
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 Mr. T. Fong for the Respondent
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 Appellants were convicted by the Magistrate's Court of larceny of cattle contrary to section 307 of the Penal Code and each sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 They appeal against their conviction on the sole}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15927191  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 ground -}
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That the learned trial Magistrate erred in convicting your petitioners when there was insufficient evidence."
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 Other grounds were abandoned at the hearing of}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15927191  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 the appeal}
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 The sole issue at the trial was one of identity, the appellants maintaining that the whole of the day in question they were elsewhere working for their employer.}{
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1507760\charrsid15927191 Though the learned Magistrate did not make any specific findings in his judgment, he did say that he accepted the evidence of Arisi Tabuasei as being the truth.
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\par This witness had test
ified that when he became aware that the animal had been removed from where it had been tethered, he went in search of it following "hoof-marks". Some distance away he saw the two appellants leading the animal. He followed them for about a mile. 
It was still daylight. As soon as the appellants realised they were being followed they left the animal and hid themselves in the bush. The witness said -
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\par This evidence if accepted; as it was, in its entirety, would be quite sufficient to support a conviction for this offence. The ground, therefore, fails.
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\par Appeal of each appellant is dismissed.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15927191 
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\par JUDGE
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\par Suva,
\par 6th October 1978
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