NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY VS EPHRAIM ADEWOGA BANJO
August 22, 2025G.A. AKHIWU VS THE PRINCIPAL LOTTERIES OFFICER & ANOR
August 22, 2025Legalpedia Citation:
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
HOLDEN AT LAGOS
Wed Mar 29, 1972
Suit Number: SC 787/1971
CORAM
MAIIMUDE MOHAMMED, JUSTICE SUPREME COURT
UDOMA
P. NNAEMEKA-AGU, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
PARTIES
ADELAKUN AYINDE & ORS APPELLANTS
THE STATE RESPONDENTS
AREA(S) OF LAW
SUMMARY OF FACTS
The Appellants are charged with the murder of one olubodun, the deceased. In their statement to the police they confessed to attacking some Egbas, including the deceased on a farm, but later denied same and said the statements they gave to the police were not voluntary. The corpse of the deceased was not found at the time of hearing.
HELD
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal.
ISSUES
1. That the corpus delicti was not found and it was therefore unsafe to convict the appellants of the murder of Olubodun; and 2. That the evidence which the trial Judge had accepted must be regarded as non-cumulative and inconclusive inasmuch as all the principal witnesses were members of the same community.
RATIONES DECIDENDI
CASES CITED
Joseph Ogundipe & Others v. The Queen 14 WACA 485
STATUTES REFERRED TO
None.|
