JUDGEMENT SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION:
This appeal borders on Criminal Law and Procedure.
FACTS:
This appeal is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal Ibadan Division, delivered on the 15th day of May, 2020, affirming the conviction and sentence to death by hanging of the Appellant by the High Court of Ogun State, delivered on the 25th day of January, 2011 for the offence of murder.
The Appellant was arraigned before the High Court of Ogun State on a single-count charge of murder. On the 26th day of November, 2006, at about 7.45 pm, the Appellant called the deceased, one Ifeanacho Egbe, to meet him at a car wash in Ijebu- ode. The deceased invited his friend, Sunday Ogbonna, to escort him. Upon arriving at the location, the Appellant invited two men to follow him to Ijebu-Igbo to collect money. The Appellant invited the deceased to follow him somewhere, leaving his friend, Sunday Ogbonna, behind at a restaurant.
Some hours later, the Appellant came back without the deceased. Sunday Ogbonna en…