OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal interrogates the rightness of the decision of the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division (hereinunder addressed as "the lower court"), coram judice: S. J. Adah, E. O. Williams-Dawodu and M. B Idris, JJCA, in Appeal NO.CA/A/210C/2020, delivered on the 21st December, 2020. In its judgment, the lower court affirmed the decision of the High Court of Niger State (the trial court), in Charge No. NSHC/MN/9C/2016, delivered on the 6th November, 2019, wherein Aisha A. L. B. Bwari, J. convicted the appellant for culpable homicide punishable with death.
The synopses of the material facts of the case, which transmuted into the appeal, are incompatible with complexity. On the 28th March, 2014, in Kichikpa village via Kafin Koro in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, one Lami Danladi bathed her three months baby boy, Musa Danladi, and laid him in her room. The appellant entered the room and administered a poisonous substa…