"The charge having been read over and explained to both accused persons in the Igbo language and each of them pleaded not guilty thereto, I find it difficult to conceive...
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"No judgment shall be stayed or reversed on the ground of any objection which if stated after the charge was read over to the accused or during the progress of...
"When there has been a joint trial of separate indictments without objection, prima facie it is an irregularity not a nullity. Section 168 of the CPA makes that conclusion inevitable...
"It follows that it is irregular for a trial Judge to recall an accused or call a witness after the close of defence. However, this dictum appears to me to...
"It is dangerous for a trial Judge to allow himself to be influenced by any extraneous event which takes place outside his court, because such could lead to a miscarriage...
"After the close of the case for the defence, the trial Judge can call a witness proprio motu or suo motu if, and only if, the defence has set up...
"A trial court at any stage of the trial may call any person as a witness or recall any witness including the accused if his evidence appears to the court...
"Where any person is convicted of having stolen or having received stolen property, the court convicting him may order that such property or part thereof be restored to the person...
"It is well settled that it is not for an accused person to prove his alibi; it is only for him to bring it forward but it is for the...
"When the defence is raised by the accused, the police have a duty to investigate in order to know the veracity or authenticity of the defence. … Where the police...
"A court is said to be of competent jurisdiction with regard to a suit or other proceeding when it has power to hear or determine it or exercise any judicial...
"Those accused persons ought not to have been discharged. Luckily for them, however, their case is not before this court there being no appeal against their discharge. What is, therefore...
