A. O. OBASEKI, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): My Lords, the appellant was tried and convicted on a murder charge by the High Court (Unurhoro, J.) at Benin City on the 14th day of November, 1977, and sentenced to death. Being aggrieved by the conviction and sentence, he appealed to the Federal Court of Appeal to quash the conviction and sentence. After hearing, the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal in a considered judgment delivered on the 10th day of May, 1979. He has now appealed to this court on the following grounds:
"(1)The decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in upholding the judgment of the trial court was unwarranted having regard to the weight of evidence.
The Federal Court of Appeal misdirected itself in law when it upheld the reception of the highly prejudicial evidence by the trial Judge by upholding the admission of the alleged confessional statement of the appellant when there was no proof that such a statement was made and this admission has occasio…