IKYEGH, J.C.A., (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant was convicted and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for the offence of manslaughter contrary to section 325 of the Criminal Code Law (Cap.29), Laws of Ogun State, 1978, by the Ogun State High Court of Justice sitting at Abeokuta.
The case against her was that in the morning hours of 15.3.2003, there was an uproar in the premises of one Sokoye at No.5 Igbore Road Abeokuta. It involved a quarrel and fight between some of the children of the landlord and the care-taker of the premises. The deceased, a woman and one of the tenants, intervened and pacified them. Later in the evening of the same day, the appellant confronted the deceased along the corridor of the premises where she was cooking, close to her room. She queried her for intervening in the quarrel. Their interaction led to the appellant slapping the deceased first. It was followed by her push against a wardrobe; the push brought the deceased to the ground. The a…