KWAKU FRIMPONG a.k.a IBOMAN V the republic (SUPRA) AT PAGE 328 that where a minimum custodial sentence is fixed by law, upon conviction, the fact that the accused-appellant is a first offender would be of no consequence -ROBERTSON V THE REPUBLIC [2015] 80 GMJ 45 PER OWUSU 9MS.0 JSC, the Supreme Court stated as follows:-
	“Sentencing is discretionary and where the discretion has been judicially exercised, an appellate court has no just cause to interfere with the exercise of the discretion.
The principle upon which the Court would act on appeal against sentence were that it would interfere with a sentence on the mere ground that if members of the Court had been trying the appellant they might have passed a somewhat different sentence.  The Court will interfere only when it was manifestly excessive having regard to the circumstances of the case or the sentence was wrong in principle.”
 