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ILOUNO
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STATE

(2023) JELR 110433 (SC)

Supreme Court 27 Jan 2023 Nigeria
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- The appellant was convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery. - The appellant raised several issues for determination, including whether there was sufficient evidence linking him to the crime

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Suit Number:SC.CR/553/2020
Judges:Amina Adamu Augie JSC Uwani Musa Abba Aji JSC Adamu Jauro JSC Tijjani Abubakar JSC Emmanuel Akomaye Agim JSC
Counsel:VINCENT OSAKURE, ESQ. with him, F. I. NNNABA, ESQ. for the Appellant; O. BADEWOLE, ESQ. with fiat from A.G. for the Respondent.

UWANI MUSA ABBA AJI, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Appellant was arraigned before the trial Court on 9/10/2014, for conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery contrary to Sections 6(b) and 2(2)(a) of the Robbery and Firearms Act respectively. A trial-within-trial was conducted to ascertain the voluntariness of his confessional statement, which the Court subsequently admitted as Exhibit H. At the end of the trial, he was convicted and sentenced to death. His appeal to the lower Court was dismissed, hence this appeal. The Appellant has distilled these issues for the determination of this appeal: 

1. Whether there was sufficient evidence before the Court linking the Appellant with the commission of the offences of conspiracy and armed robbery to warrant the affirmation of his conviction by the Court below? 

2. Whether the trial Court and the Court of Appeal properly held the Appellant's conviction after evaluating the evidence on record of PW1, PW2 and PW3 which w…

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