UZO IFEYINWA NDUKWE-ANYANWU, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Ondo State delivered by Hon. Justice O. O. Akeredolu on 10th day of October, 2016 convicting the Appellant for Murder.
The brief statement of facts is as follows:
Briefly, the facts of the case are as follows: On 8th June, 2013 at about 5.30 pm, PW1 (Samuel Adegoke) returned home from a party and discovered that the doors to the front and back entrance were locked from the inside. As he continued knocking at the door, the Appellant opened the door. He queried the Appellant about his presence in his (PWs) house and that was when he saw that the Appellants hand were soaked with blood. PW2 later traced the blood to the passage of the house and found two blood stained knives on the ground beside the corpse of the deceased later identified as Joshua Fadeyi. PW2 called the Divisional Police Officer of Oke-Igbo Police Station whose number he had and reported the in…