COP
V.
OKOYE & ORS.
AMINA ADAMU AUGIE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The 1st Respondent, who is a legal practitioner, was arraigned with the other Respondents at the Chief Magistrate Court, Awka, on a 7-count Charge of serious assault on police officers; malicious damage; unlawful assault on "one Sgt. Paulinus Nze, while acting in the execution of his lawful duty by hitting him with a stick on his left eyebrow which caused him harm"; unlawful assault on "one Inspector Godwin Okeme by giving him fist blows all over his body"; unlawful assault on "one Sgt. Onuh Odoh by giving him fist blows all over his body"; unlawful and malicious damage "to 55 fifty-five six inches blocks valued at N3,850.00, property of one Christian Okoye"; and unlawful and malicious damage to a "wall fence valued at N9,000.00 property of one Christian Okoye". The matter was adjourned to 3rd August 2006, for "plea and hearing", but on that day, learned counsel for the Respondents orally applied for an Order -
"Directing th…