HARUNA SIMON TSAMMANI, JSC (DELIVERING THE LEADING JUDGMENT): The Appellant herein, was one of three (3) persons who were arrested, arraigned, tried and convicted by the Kogi State High Court of Justice sitting at Lokoja on the 27th day of February, 2009. His appeal to the Court of Appeal was dismissed in a well-considered judgment delivered on the 4th day of December, 2012.
The Appellant and two others were convicted for the offences of conspiracy, and culpable homicide punishable with death contrary to Section 97 (1) and 221 (a) of the Penal Code applicable to Kogi State. They were convicted for conspiring to kill one Oziohu Iregu on the 25/2/2016. That the Appellant and his co-accused stabbed the deceased in several places on her body with a butcher's knife thereby leading to the death of the said Oziohu Iregu. The deceased was the Appellant's paternal aunt whom the Appellant and his co-accused alleged was a witch and responsible for the death of the Appellant's father and two othe…