7/9/2020 Hans Caperhat Williams and Mardia P.

Williams VS Republic of Liberia – Supreme Court of Liberia

committed the crime of Murder, a felony of the first degree and a capital offense, to wit:
That on the 30th day of November A.D. 2007, at about 7:00 p.m. in the Old Road community,
Sinkor, Monrovia, Montserrado County and Republic of Liberia, the defendants hereinabove named
did cause the death of another human being, to wit: Juvenile Little Angel Togbah, aged (13) under
circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, to wit: by choking her to
death and hanging her lifeless body in one of two bathrooms in the defendants’ house.
And that the Grand Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid, do hereby say that co-defendant
Mardia P. Williams, out of malice aforethought and of the conviction that co-defendant Hans C.
Williams, Sr. had sexual intercourse (rape) with decedent, she co-defendant Mardia P. Williams
jumped-on, strangulated and choked decedent little Angel Togbah to death. And that after
accomplishing her wicked act; they, defendants herein, together clandestinely took the lifeless body
of decedent Little Angel
Togbah to one of two bathrooms in the defendants’ house and tied a cloth/belt around her
(decedent’s) neck and did hang her lifeless body to the bathroom rod, under the pretense that
decedent had hanged herself.
And that the Grand Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid, do hereby say that defendants
aforesaid, upon going through the above, they the defendants, went and sat outside; and sent their
little son, Hans C. Williams, Jr. to the bathroom where the defendants had earlier hanged the lifeless
body of Angel Togbah. And that, upon entering the bathroom, he, Hans C. Williams, Jr. blew an alarm
calling his parents’ attention to what he had seen (the body of Little Angel Togbah) with rope
around her neck, hanging in the bathroom.
And that the Grand Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid, do further say that prior to sending
Little Hans C. Williams, Jr. to where the body of Little Angel Togbah was, to discover the wicked act
already perpetrated by his parents, the defendants had earlier called on other persons to be on the
stand-by so that after the alarm blew, they will resort to the next course of action. Those that were
invited by the defendants were Henrietta Paykue, Oscar Paykue, Angie Gargar, Musu Williams, Little
Conwelee Williams and Patrick Williams, all closed associates and/or family members/relatives of
the defendants.
And that the Grand Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid, do hereby further say that Hans C.
Williams, Jr. having gone to the bathroom and seen the wicked act perpetrated by his parents
hereinabove named, he came back running; and informed the already by-standers. And that they,
the above named by-standers under the command of the defendants, and in an attempt to erase,
conceal and destroy evidence, removed the body of little Angel Togbah from where she was hanged
and took her lifeless body to the J.F.K. Hospital, where she was pronounced DEAD ON ARRIVAL
(DOA) by the medical authorities at said JFK Medical Hospital.
And that at the time of the commission of the wicked act, the defendants had no other affirmative
defense for their action; but to conceal said wicked act, by attributing same to the decedent—Angel
Togbah, hanging herself.
Wherefore, the Grand Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do hereby say that the
defendants aforesaid, and in the form and manner aforesaid did criminally, recklessly and purposely
cause the death of little Angel Togbah and the crime of MURDER, the defendants aforesaid, did do
and commit, contrary to the Statutory laws of the Republic of Liberia and against the peace and
dignity of the state in such cases made and provided; contrary to: 4 LCLR, Title 26, Sec. 14.1(b) and

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