EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal No. CA/A/524/2016 was commenced on 18-12- 2015 when the appellant herein filed a notice of appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Federal Capital Territory in criminal case No. FCT/HC/9/15/CR/05/2007 delivered on 12-10-2015 at Gudu, Abuja by A.M. Talba J. The notice of appeal contains 7 grounds for the appeal. With leave of this court, the notice of appeal was amended. The amended notice contains 9 grounds of appeal.
Both sides filed, exchanged and adopted their respective briefs as follows- Appellant's brief and respondent's brief.
The appellant's brief raised the following issues for determination-
Whether the learned trial Judge was correct to have held and convicted the appellant on the premise that the prosecution proved the offences of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery in the light of the amended charge and evidence adduced before the trial court. (Distilled from grounds 1, 2,…