T. O. ELIAS, C.J.N. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On February 24, 1971, the accused was at the Oshogbo High Court convicted by Ogunkeye, J., of the murder of one Ramota Abeo and sentenced to death. His appeal to the Western State Court of Appeal was dismissed and the conviction and sentence were affirmed on June 28, 1971. When his appeal to this court was heard on August 14, 1972, we dismissed it, and now give our reasons for so doing.
The facts were briefly as follows: the 2nd to the 5th prosecution witnesses deposed that they, the deceased and the appellant lived in the same house at Ogbagba village in the Ede District of Western State of Nigeria, and that the 2nd prosecution witness is appellant's uncle, the 3rd prosecution witness is his mother, the 4th prosecution witness is his father, the 5th prosecution witness is appellant's uncle's (2nd P.W.'s wife), while the deceased was appellants's father's (4th P.W.'s) junior wife. They further deposed that on April 16, 1968, all s…