ONWUKA
V.
THE STATE
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COKER, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment)-The appellant was tried and convicted by Adefarasin, J. at the Lagos Assizes and sentenced to a total term of seven years I.H.L. The information on which he was charged contains two counts as follows:-
"Statement of Offence: 1st Count
Fraudulent false accounting, contrary to section 438 (b) of the Criminal Code.
Particular of Offence
Samuel Chike Onwuka (M) between January 1965 and February 1967 at Lagos, in the Lagos Judicial Division, being a clerk employed by Sterling Drugs International, Lagos with intent to defraud made false entries in a book of accounts belonging to your employer to wit : the wages book purporting to show that between the said dates the total wages paid to the company employees was 24,021,6s,8p (twenty four thousand and twenty-one pounds, six shillings and eight pence) whereas in truth and in fact it was 19,852,16,8p (nineteen thousand, eight hundred and fifty-two pounds, sixteen shillings and eight pence).
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