"It is the law that contradictions in evidence of witnesses can only avail the opposite party where they are material, substantial and affect the live issues in the matter, to...
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"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...
"The law is firmly settled that where strong circumstantial evidence is led against an accused person in a criminal trial and this give rise to the drawing of a presumption...
"A young man of 18 years of age who was charged along with the appellant had stated in his evidence that when the appellant and the deceased started fighting he...
"Section 33(6)(a) of the 1979 Constitution essentially concerns the entitlement of a person to be informed promptly in the language that he understands and in detail of the nature of...
"Such a confession is not evidence against the respondent in this case but is a relevant fact against only the maker by virtue of section 27(3) of the Evidence Act....
"The appropriate superior authority may authorise a relevant senior officer to order a court martial. The authorisation given to Air Commodore Ajobena by the Chief of Air Staff was proper...
"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...
"When more persons than one are accused of the same offence or of different offences committed in the same transaction or when a person is accused of committing an offence...
CRIMINAL LAW — Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt — Meaning and Standard of Proof Required of Prosecution
"In criminal trials the onus is on the prosecution to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. Proof beyond all reasonable doubt does not mean or import or connote beyond any...
"Under Bini customary law, the principal house in which the deceased lived in his lifetime and died is called the 'Igiogbe'. That always passes by way of inheritance on distribution...
