JIMI OLUKAYODE BADA, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is an appeal against the Judgment of High Court of Justice, Ota Judicial Division in Ogun State in charge NO: HCT/26R/2013 BETWEEN: THE STATE v. AZEEZ AMAO ALAYANDE delivered on the 14th day of December 2017 wherein the Appellant was sentenced to death.
Briefly the facts of the case are that on 2/11/2017, PW1 and his wife were driving a Sienna bus along Ilogbo Road, Ota, Ogun State when they heard a gunshot and a motorcycle with three (3) passengers blocked them, one of the men on the motorcycle brought out a gun and fired into the air and the other two forcefully entered into PW1’s vehicle. The Appellant who was armed with a gun took over the wheels while the other robber ordered PW1 and his wife to go to the backseat and that PW1 should lie on his wife. The Appellant robbed PW1 of his wristwatch, money and phones while his accomplice robbed his wife of her phone too while driving them to an unknown destination.…