LAWANI ADESOKAN & ORS VS PRINCE MICHAEL OYETUNJI OKEYOYIN ADEGOROLU & ORS
July 4, 2025IRABOR OVIAWE VS INTEGRATED RUBBER PRODUCTS NIGERIA LIMITED & ANOR
July 4, 2025Legalpedia Citation: (1997) Legalpedia (SC) 27101
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
HOLDEN AT ABUJA
Thu Mar 6, 1997
Suit Number: SC.130/1994
CORAM
A.B. WALI
OLAJIDE OLATAWURA., JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
U. MOHAMMED
A.I. IGUH
PARTIES
JOHN PETER APPELLANTS
THE STATE RESPONDENTS
AREA(S) OF LAW
SUMMARY OF FACTS
SUMMARY OF FACTS
The appellant was charged and convicted with murder at the Magistrate Court, he appealed his conviction at the Court of Appeal, it was dismissed. Still dissatisfied, he has appealed to this Court.
HELD
I accordingly find no substance in this appeal which is dismissed by me. I affirm the judgment of the court below
ISSUES
Whether the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the appellant murdered Solomon Nwokocha Whether the procedure adopted by the trial court and affirmed by the Court of Appeal did not deny the appellant the very essence of a fair hearing guaranteed to him under section 33(4) and (5) of the 1979 Constitution as enunciated by the Supreme Court in Sanusi v. Ameyogun (1992) 4 NWLR (Pt. 237) p. 527
RATIONES DECIDENDI
CASES CITED
Cachi v. The State (1965) NMLR 333Obiode v. The State (1970) 1 All NLR 35Odidika v. The State (1977) 2 SC 21Yanor v. The State (1965) 1 All NLR 193 at 199Chadwick (1917) 12 Cr. App. R. 247.
STATUTES REFERRED TO
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