KAYCEE (NIG.) LTD. VS. PROMPT SHIPPING CORPORATION NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY
July 22, 2025EVARIST UGOJI VS THEOPHILUS UZOUKWU
July 22, 2025Legalpedia Citation: (1986) Legalpedia (SC) 88998
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Mon Jan 6, 1986
Suit Number: SC.220/71
CORAM
COKER, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
UDOMA, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
SOWEMIMO, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
PARTIES
AYOGU UGWUONU UGWUANYI APPELLANTS
RESPONDENTS
AREA(S) OF LAW
SUMMARY OF FACTS
The Appellant was tried and convicted in the High Court, Enugu, East-Central State (Phil-Ebosie, J.), of the murder on the 21st May, 1970 at Ikpamodo village in Enugu Ezike of one David Ona.
HELD
The appellant who did what eventually led to the killing of David Ona
ISSUES
Whether the circumstantial evidence given at the trial of the appellant had not such probative value as would ground the conviction of the appellant on a charge of murder
RATIONES DECIDENDI
ADMISSIBILITY OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
Circumstantial evidence is admissible where it lies in the unmistakeable aim of the totality of evidence which by an undesigned coincidence points in to a direction.-Per George B. A. Coker,JSC
CASES CITED
R v. Taylor & Ors. (1928) 21 CAR 20 at p. 21
R. v. Onufrejezyk (1955) 39 CAR 1 at pp. 11/12
STATUTES REFERRED TO
None.
