NONYEREM OKORONKWO, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant in this appeal was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in these terms.
The Sentence of this Court upon you Gbenga Saidi Alogunebi is that you be hanged by the neck until you be dead and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
The above was the conclusion of the Judgment of the Ogun State High Court in HCB/9C/2013. The State v. Gbenga Saidi Alogunebi delivered at Ijebu Igbo Judicial Division on 13/10/16.
Upon the conviction and sentence, the accused person thereof, being dissatisfied lodged this appeal upon a Notice of Appeal filed 13/10/2016 wherein five grounds of appeal were filed. The grounds of appeal without that particular are herewith reproduced:
Ground 1
The learned trial judge erred in law in convicting the appellant for the offences of murder contrary to the Section 319 (1) of the Criminal Code Act when the prosecution failed to prove the said offences beyond reasonable doubt.
Ground 2
The learned trial ju…