T. O. ELIAS, C.J.N. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On Thursday, April 24, 1975, we heard the appeal from the judgment of Omo Eboh, J., given in Charge No. U/11c/71 at the High Court at Ubiaja, Mid-Western State of Nigeria, in which he purported to have sentenced each of the two accused persons to 5 years' imprisonment I.H.L. on the 1st count of manslaughter, but in which he did not pronounce sentence on the 2nd count of negligent driving in respect of both accused persons.
Of the five grounds of appeal filed before us, Mr. Ihensekhien, learned counsel for the appellant who alone has appealed, began by arguing the first ground which reads as follows:-
"The Learned Trial Judge erred in Law in so far as:-
(a) He sentenced the appellant before conviction.
(b) The judgment was not reduced into writing and signed and dated before it was "dictated."
(c) He sentenced the appellant before judgment.
(d) The judgment was reduced into writing, dated and signed when he was already functus off…