BIOBELE ABRAHAM GEORGEWILL, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the Judgment of the High Court of Edo State, Auchi Judicial Division Coram: Efe Ikponmwonba J, in Suit No. HAU/3CA/2006: Shaka Okwilague v. Commissioner of Police delivered on 29/1/2008, in which the conviction of the Appellant in Charge No. MAU/23C/2005: COP v. Shaka Okwilague and 2 Ors., for the offence of willful and unlawful damage of a Peugeot 505 Salon Car with Regd. No.AE 769 AUC, property of one Alhaja Kelimetu Okwilague in Count 2 and punishable under Section 451 of the Criminal Code Cap. 48, Vol. II, Laws of the defunct Bendel State of Nigeria, 1976 as applicable in Edo State by the Senior Magistrate Court Auchi was affirmed but the sentence of three years imprisonment imposed on the Appellant was reduced.
The Appellant was peeved with the said Judgment affirming his conviction and had appealed against it vide his Notice of Appeal filed on 10/3/2008 on three Grounds of appeal at …