KINGDON, C,J., NIGERIA, BUTLER LLOYD AND BAKER, J.J. In this case the two appellants were convicted by Jackson. Asst. J., sitting in the High Court of the Calabar-Aba Judicial Division of the offence of Demanding property with menaces contra section 406 of the Criminal Code, the particulars of the offence alleged being : - “Ezekiel Kalio and James Onwudachi, on the 30th June, 1942, “at Port Harcourt, in the Owerri Province, with intent to steal did “demand the sum of £2 from Mary Okorafor with the threat that “if the demand was not complied with the said Ezekiel Kalio would “comn1it suicide by hanging himself in the house of Mary Okorafor “on account of venereal disease alleged to have been contracted from “the said Mary Okorafor.”
Both appellants were convicted and sentenced.
The facts proved supported the particulars alleged and the only question which arises upon the appeal is whether the threat to commit suicide by hanging himself in the house of Mary Okorafor made by the first appellant and abetted by the second appellant amounted to a threat of detriment within the meaning of section 406 of the Criminal Code.
The learned trial Judge, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, found that it did, and we are of opinion that he was justified in so finding.
The appeals are dismissed.