What is Notice of Alibi?
A notice of alibi is a legal statement submitted by a defendant in a criminal case, indicating their claim of being elsewhere at the time of the alleged crime.
Here its exampe of Notice of alibi in Tanzania.
THE HIGH COURT OF TANZANIA
AT DAR ES SALAAM
CRIMINAL SESSION CASE NO: 79 OF 2023
(P. I No: 10 of 2033 at the RMs Court of DSM at Kisutu)
REPUBLIC
VERSUS
XXX……ACCUSED
NOTICE OF ALIBI
(Made under Section 194 (4) of the Criminal Procedure Act R.E 2022 and any other enabling provisions of the law)
TAKE NOTICE that when this criminal session case shall come for hearing the accused person above named shall rely on the defence of ALIBI on the following grounds;
1. That on the 25th day of May, 2023, when the complained of homicide took place the accused person was in Kampala City.
2. That the accused entered Tanzania via Nairobi on the 1st day of June 2023. The accused person shall rely on the evidence in his passport.
DATED at Dar es salaam this…day of February 2023.
….
ADVOCATE FOR THE ACCUSED
PRESENTED for filing this…day of February 2023.
……………………. REGISTRY OFFICER
DRAWN AND FILES BY;
Sheriazetu advocate
Box 2525
Dar es salaam.
COPY TO BE SERVED UPON
DPP.
BOX 55
DAR ES SALAAAM
