SANI
V.
STATE

(2018) JELR 38972 (CA)

Court of Appeal · CA/K/412B/C/2017 · 18 May 2018 · Nigeria

CORAM

UWANI MUSA ABBA AJI Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria IBRAHIM SHATA BDLIYA Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria OBIETONBARA O. DANIEL-KALIO Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria

Core Terms ^Beta

appellant

armed robbery

respondent

confessional statement

trial court

accused person

appellants house

death sentence

reasonable doubt

appellate court

brief of argument

ingredients of armed robbery

katsina state

local government area of katsina state

trial

13th day of august

appellants counsel

buhari sani of yarshanya village

charge no.kth

circumstantial evidence

katsina judicial division

leading judgment

uwani musa abba aji

age of the convicts

arrest of the appellant

charge sheet

circumstances of this case

confessional statements

criminal procedure code

determination of the appeal

exhibits 1a

following facts

houses of the appellant

judgment of the court

learned trial judge

notice of appeal

obietonbara o. daniel-kalio j.c.a.

offensive weapons

per ogunbiyi

person lives

public prosecution

respondent file

rules of this court

simon v. state

state v. ajayi

sum of n100,000.00

time of the robbery

victim of the armed robbery

UWANI MUSA ABBA AJI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of Honourable Justice I.B. Ahmed of High Court of Katsina State, Katsina Judicial Division in Charge No.KTH/23C/2014, delivered on 25/5/2017, wherein the Appellant was convicted and sentenced to death for armed robbery to be remanded in prison at the Governors pleasure.

The charges against the Appellant contained at page 1 of the records in the Charge Sheet dated 6/2/2014 read as follows:

COUNT ONE:

THAT YOU, BUHARI SANI of Yarshanya village, Batagarawa Local Government Area of Katsina State, on or about the 13th day of August, 2013, along Yarshanya village feeder road, in Batagarawa Local Government Area, attacked one Abdulrazak Idris and robbed him of the sum of N100,000.00 and at the time of the robbery, you were armed with offensive weapons such as stick and matchet with which you injured him and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 1(2), (b) of the Robbery and Fire…

SANI V. STATE

SANI
V.
STATE