JOHN OFUJE V THE STATE
July 24, 2025ASUQUO ETIM V THE STATE
July 24, 2025Legalpedia Citation: (1982) Legalpedia (SC) 11751
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Thu Oct 7, 1982
Suit Number: SC. 8/1981
CORAM
SOWEMIMO JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
A.B WALI – JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
IDIGBE JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
PARTIES
ADESHINA ASHIMIYU & ORS APPELLANTS
RESPONDENTS
AREA(S) OF LAW
SUMMARY OF FACTS
The Appellant and four others were jointly charged for the offence murder of one Frank Okonjo.
HELD
APPEAL DIMISSED
ISSUES
RATIONES DECIDENDI
Defense of provocation
“For provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter the act of the provoked person must be done not in self-revenge but in ventilation of a natural, sudden and contemporaneous feeling of anger caused by the circumstances of the occasion” PER M. BELLO, JSC.
CASES CITED
Akong v. The State (1971) 1 All NLR 46,
STATUTES REFERRED TO
Nil
