KAFENE JEDDO VS AGHARIMUAYIRE IMIKO
August 22, 2025BAADON KPAA VS THE STATE
August 22, 2025Legalpedia Citation: (1972) Legalpedia (SC) 21839
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Thu Mar 30, 1972
Suit Number: SC. 787/1971
CORAM
COKER JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
UDOMA JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
FATAYI-WILLIAMS JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
PARTIES
ADELAKUN AYINDE & ORS APPELLANTS
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
That the corpus delicti was not found and it was therefore unsafe to convict the appellants of the murder of Olubodun; and
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
CONVICTION OF MURDER ON THE ABSENCE OF THE DEAD BODY
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CASES CITED
Joseph Ogundipe & Others v. The Queen 14 WACA 485
STATUTES REFERRED TO
