Principle Archive

Circumstantial evidence is nothing more than evidence of surrounding circumstances which by their very nature are capable of establishing a proposition, such as the criminality of…

An accused person can be convicted for murder where every thing points to the accused as the murderer but so long as the evidence in support…

Where the evidence led in respect of the defence of each of the appellants was unquestionably different from that led with regard to the 4th accused…

A general defence of alibi without sufficient facts to warrant an investigation is clearly porous and vague and cannot avail an accused person.

Such defence must be timeously brought to the attention of the Police by the accused person, preferably in his extra-judicial statement to afford the Police an…

To take advantage of this defence, the accused person must give a detailed particularisation of his whereabouts on the crucial day of the offence which will…

Once the accused has reasonably and sufficiently furnished information of his whereabouts on the date of the offence alleged, the burden shifts on the prosecution to…

For the accused person to raise the defence while testifying at his trial is to deliberately deny the prosecution its right and duty to investigate the…

Guided by the above facts and the principle laid down by this court in Abodundu & 4 Ors v. Queen (1959) 4 FSC 70; (1959) SCNLR…

These requirements are very clear and are all mandatory and not directory as they are each preceded by the word 'shall' This court has in many…

Where the plea of an appellant had been defectively taken in violation of the statutory provisions of the law earlier quoted, the whole trial, conviction and…

All the pieces of evidence referred to go to show that the 1st accused/appellant understands no other language than Yoruba I need not emphasize that the…