AHMAD OLAREWAJU BELGORE, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is from the judgment of the Ekiti State High Court, sitting in its appellate jurisdiction, which affirmed the conviction of the Appellant herein by O. A. Owoleso, Esq., Senior Magistrate Grade II of Ado-Ekiti. The appeal at the High Court was presided over by Hon. Justice Ayodeji S. Daramola, the Hon. Chief Judge and his judgment was handed down on the 15th day of May, 2014 in Suit No: HAD/2A/2013.
The facts of the case are that on the strength of a letter written on the 9th day of October, 2007, by a Solicitor, Olakunle Omotoso Esq., on behalf of the Appellant herein, one Chief Sunday Ape, Toyin Ape and some other persons listed in the letter were arrested for threat to life and malicious damage. The letter was admitted in evidence by the trial Magistrate Court (Now the trial Court) as Exhibit K. The statement made by the Appellant to the Police is Exhibit J. The persons listed in Exhibit K were alleged to h…