DABLA V THE REPUBLIC [1980] GLR 501 Counsel submitted that the appellant was not the principal actor in so far as the commission of the offences charged were concerned but rather the A3 who was convicted and sentenced in absentia - REPUBLIC V BOFAH [1968] GLR 620, where it was held that too lenient a sentence for a serious offence is improper.  - ROBERTSON V THE REPUBLIC [2015] 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 an appeal against sentence were that it would not interfere with a sentence on the mere ground that if members of the Court has 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.”
