FATIMA OMORO AKINBAMI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal from the judgment of Ekiti State High Court sitting at Ado-Ekiti, delivered by J.O. Adeyeye J, on 27th June, 2013, convicting and sentencing the Appellant to life imprisonment for conspiracy and attempted robbery and six months imprisonment for willful and unlawful damage to property.
The Appellant, dissatisfied with the judgment filed a Notice of Appeal on 15th July, 2013 containing eleven Grounds of Appeal against the judgment.
The Appellant was arraigned before the trial High Court, together with one Adebayo Rufus for the offences of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and willful and unlawful damage to property.
The Respondents evidence before the lower Court was to the effect that on 29th September, 2008 a gang of armed robbers including the Appellant and one Adebayo Rufus while armed with cutlass, knife, and gun invaded the house of one Hon. Olayinka Ajayi at Otun Ekiti, and made away with the wif…