EJEMBI EKO, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Appellant was tried at, and convicted by, the Lagos State High Court (coram: O.A. Williams, J) on a two count charge alleging conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery contrary respectively to Sections 403(a) and 402(1) of the Criminal Code Law, Cap C.17 vol. 2 Laws of Lagos State, 2003. She was jointly tried for the two offences with one Kazeem Raimi, her boyfriend. They were convicted for the said two offences. The Appellant's appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal (the lower Court); hence, this further appeal.
Etiosa Osigbo-Esere, the alleged victim of the robbery, testified as PW1. She had known the Appellant intimately for a while. The Appellant lived with one Linda Ofili who lived as PW1's tenant in the Boys Quarters of the same apartment. The Appellant was Linda Ofili's house help or nanny. Most times the PW1 invited the Appellant to her living room in the main building where they watched television together. The PW1 cla…