BELLO, J.S.C. (Delivering the Judgment of the Court): For no apparent reason the appellant cut a girl of 10 years old with a matchet and she died as the result. The defence of the appellant was that he did not know what he was doing when he was cutting the girl but that when he realised what he had done he ran away. The learned trial judge in his judgment exhaustively considered the defence of insanity and from the evidence before him found the defence not proved. He convicted the appellant of murder. The Court of Appeal affirmed the conviction. At the hearing of the appeal before us learned counsel for the appellant and the Deputy Solicitor-General of Bendel State for the respondent found nothing useful to urge in favour of the appellant.
I am satisfied the appeal has no merit. It is accordingly dismissed. I affirm the conviction and sentence.
OBASEKI, J.S.C.: This is a murder appeal from the judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal. The appellant made a confessional statement both to…