The
accused was charged and convicted of two counts of contravening section 5 as
read with section 30(1)(a) of the Trapping of Animals Central Act [Chapter
20:21].
On
the first count, he had set up thirty wire snares at a ranch in Mwenezi
belonging to Bio Energy Company on 16 August 2009 and had caught four ...
The
accused was charged and convicted of two counts of contravening section 5 as
read with section 30(1)(a) of the Trapping of Animals Central Act [Chapter
20:21].
On
the first count, he had set up thirty wire snares at a ranch in Mwenezi
belonging to Bio Energy Company on 16 August 2009 and had caught four zebras
valued at US$4,000=. The meat was recovered.
On
the second count he set up six snares on 3 November 2009, at the same farm, and
caught an impala valued at US$500= which was also recovered.
The entire section 30 of the Trapping of Animals
Central Act [Chapter 20:21] was repealed by section 4 of Act No.22 of 2001.
Therefore the charge, as it stands, was defective and the magistrate should not
have convicted the accused person as charged.
