OGBUINYA JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This appeal sprang from the judgment of the Kwara State High Court, coram. Hon. Justice I.
Garba, delivered on 29 September 2009 in which the appellants were convicted of criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. Flowing from the processes filed, the facts of that case, leading to this appeal, are not complex. The respondent alleged that thethree appellants, while armed with a locally made pistol, on 18 August 2007, attacked and robbed one Mrs. Ruth Alabi, the complainant, of the sum of N50,000.00(fifty thousand naira) at Baba OloyaArea, Jebba in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State. After the robbery attack, the victim, Mrs. Ruth Alabi, raised alarm which attracted her husband and her grown-up son who pursued them. The first appellant was arrested on the same day and his arrest led to the arrest of the second and third appellants the following day. The police, who arrested them, took them to Jebba Police Station whence they were later…