IBRAHIM MOHAMMED MUSA SAULAWA, J.S.C. (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The present appeal is consequent upon the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Judicial Division, delivered on August 6, 2019 in Appeal No. CA/PH/12CR/2018. By the decision inquestion, the Court below coram: - JUMBO OFO, Mustapha, and Lamido, JJCA, affirmed the decision of the trial High Court of Bayelsa State, holden at Yenegoa on September 19, 2016, thereby convicting and sentencing the Appellant to death by hanging for having committed the offences of conspiracy and kidnapping punishable under Section 444(a) of the Criminal Code Law, Laws of Bayelsa State, 2006 and Section 2 of the Kidnapping and Allied Offences Law, 2013.
BACKGROUND FACTS
On December 18, 2013, the Appellant was arraigned before the trial High Court upon a two count-charge:
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE - COUNT I
CONSPIRACY to commit a felony, contrary to Section 444(a) of the Criminal Code Law, Laws of Bayelsa State, 2006.
PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE
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