Narcotic Drugs Control, Enforcement and Sanctions - Law 1990 - PNDCL 236 - ABU & OTHERS V THE REPUBLIC [1980] GLR 294, submitted that the appellants are not known and also first offenders, for which reason Counsel prayed the Court to deal leniently with them by replacing the 15 years I.H.L imposed on the appellants with 10 years I.H.L. - of DABLA V THE REPUBLIC 1980 GLR 516 – 517 Counsel submitted that the fact that sentences should reflect roles played by each party is not applicable to this case as the trial Judge did not believe that any person other than the appellants masterminded the offence in question. - ROBERTSON V THE REPUBLIC [2015] 80 GMJ 45 PER OWUSU (MS) JSC, the Supreme Court stated as follows:
“Sentencing is discretionary and where the discretion has been judiciously exercised, an appellate Court has no just cause to interfere with the exercise of the discretion.  The principles upon which the Court would act on on appeal against sentence were that it would not 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 of opinion that the sentence was manifestly excessive having regard to the circumstances of this case or that the sentence was wrong in principle.”
