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AYINDE
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STATE

(2019) JELR 57941 (SC)

Supreme Court 31 May 2019 Nigeria
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Suit Number:Suit No. SC.996/2015
Judges:MUSA DATTIJO MUHAMMAD, JSC, KUMAI BAYANG AKA'AHS, JSC, JOHN INYANG OKORO, JSC, SIDI DAUDA BAGE, JSC, UWANI MUSA ABBA AJI, JSC

JOHN INYANG OKORO, JSC (DELIVERING THE LEAD JUDGMENT): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Ibadan, delivered on 6th March, 2015 wherein the lower Court affirmed the judgment of the High Court of Ogun State which convicted and sentenced the appellant to death for the offence of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery contrary to Section 1(2) (a) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act Cap 398 LFN 1990 as amended by The Tribunal (certain consequential offences ETC) Act 1999. The facts leading to this appeal may be stated as follows:

As contained in the record of Appeal, on 15th March, 2006, at Oke Bode, Abeokuta in Ogun State, the PW1 (Tomori Osoko) was going to Kuto to buy fish when the Appellant and two others who were on a motorcycle, pushed her into a drainage and robbed her of the sum of ₦9,000:00. That shortly after the incident, the PW2 (Otun Bashir Adekunle) drove by and the Pw1 tried to caution him from going into the street on…

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