EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal No. SC/CR/328/2020 was commenced on 4-2- 2020 when the appellant herein filed a notice of appeal against the Judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on 10-1-2020 in Appeal No. CA/YL/0SC/19, dismissing the appeal for lack of merit and affirming the Judgment of the High Court of Adamawa State at Yola in Criminal Case No. ADSY/17C/2017 convicting the appellant on a three counts charge of conspiracy to commit robbery while with offensive weapons, robbery, robbery armed with offensive weapons and culpable homicide punishable with death and sentencing him to death.
The parties herein have filed, exchanged and adopted their respective briefs as follows- appellant's brief, respondent's brief.
The appellant's brief raised the following issues for determination-
"Was the Lower Court not wrong when in the Lower Court Judgment, it relied solely on 'Exhibit B-B1", which was retracted by the Appellant and lacks independent cor…