Gabriel Ededey Vs The State (1972) LLJR-SC

Gabriel Ededey Vs The State (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. B. A. COKER, JSC The appellant was tried on an Information which charged him and another person on 9 counts as follows:- “STATEMENT OF OFFENCE – COUNT 1 ROBBERY, contrary to Section 402 of the Criminal Code. PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE Gabriel Ededey, Frank Odita […]

Nwibo Nkwudu Ovuji V. The State (1972) LLJR-SC

Nwibo Nkwudu Ovuji V. The State (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. S. SOWEMIMO, AG. J.S.C.  This appeal was heard on 29th November, 1971, and was dismissed. We now give our reasons for so doing. The appellant was convicted of the murder of one Adaka Imafu and sentenced to death on 7th September, 1971, at […]

John Okoye V. The State (1972) LLJR-SC

John Okoye V. The State (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report B. A. COKER, J.S.C.  The appellant herein has appealed to this Court against his conviction for murder by Oputa J. (High Court, Onitsha). He was charged and tried on an Information which alleged that on the 19th March, 1970, at Isuh in the Onitsha Division […]

Francis Ushie Vs The State (1972) LLJR-SC

Francis Ushie Vs The State (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, JSC. This is an application for leave by the applicant to appeal to this court against his conviction for manslaughter by Bassey, J., (High Court, Calabar, South-Eastern State). The applicant was originally charged with the murder, on or about the 7th June, 1968, of […]

Idirisa Mohammed V. The State (1972) LLJR-SC

Idirisa Mohammed V. The State (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report I. LEWIS, J.S.C. We now give our reasons for dismissing on the 5th of April, 1972, the appeal of Idirisa Mohammed from his conviction of culpable homicide punishable with death contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code by Hague Ag. J., in the Maiduguri […]

Joseph Adebayo Vs The State (1972) LLJR-SC

Joseph Adebayo Vs The State (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, JSC.  There is absolutely no substance in this appeal. The facts found by the learned trial Judge who tried the case are amply supported by the evidence which he accepted. Those findings portray a gross and reckless inadvertence to the lives and safety of […]

James Odunayo V. The State (1972) LLJR-SC

James Odunayo V. The State (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. S. SOWEMIMO, J.S.C The appellant was convicted and sentenced to death by Craig, J., at Ado-Ekiti in the Ekiti Judicial Divison of the High Court of Western State on 19th of October, 1970. He appealed to the Western State Court of Appeal who dismissed […]

M. O. Onayemi V. R. O. Balogun (1972) LLJR-SC

M. O. Onayemi V. R. O. Balogun (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. B. A. COKER, J.S.C.  The appellant was the defendant before the High Court, Lagos (Suit No. LD/166/67) in an action instituted against him by the respondent, then plaintiff, and in which her writ of summons was endorsed as follows: “The piece or […]

James Odunayo Vs The State (1972) LLJR-SC

James Odunayo Vs The State (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report SOWEMIMO, JSC. The appellant was convicted and sentenced to death by Craig, J., at Ado-Ekiti in the Ekiti Judicial Divison of the High Court of Western State on 19th of October, 1970. He appealed to the Western State Court of Appeal who dismissed his appeal. […]

Adelakun Ayinde & Ors Vs The State (1972) LLJR-SC

Adelakun Ayinde & Ors Vs The State (1972) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report B. A. COKER, J.S.C.  The appellants were four of eight persons charged with the murder on the 8th August, 1968, at Igbokele of one Olubodun. They were tried by the High Court, Ibadan, (Craig, J.), convicted of the offence as charged and sentenced […]