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EMEKA ONWUGHALU V. THE STATE

(2007) JELR 38070 (CA)

Court of Appeal  •  CA/E/373/2006  •  27 Mar 2007  •  Nigeria

Coram
JAMES OGENYI OGEBE JCA; SOTONYE DENTON-WEST JCA; JIMI OLUKAYODE BADA JCA;

Judgement
<p>JIMI OLUKAYODE BADA, J.C.A (Delivering the leading : ): This is an appeal against the ruling of an Ogidi High Court in Anambra State of Nigeria which was delivered on the 13th day of November 2006 in charge NO.HID/4C/2005 - The State V. Emeka Onwughalu and 2 others, wherein the learned trial Judge after considering the appellant's application for bail pending trial, refused and dismissed the said application.</p><p> The appellant was dissatisfied with the ruling and has appealed to this Court.</p><p> Briefly the facts of the case showed that the appellants and two others now at large, were on the 19th day of April 2005 arraigned before the High Court NO.1 at Ogidi on an information and charged dismissed his application?</p><p> (2) Whether the learned trial judge was right when he held that he could not find any special circumstance that would warrant his exercising his discretion in favour of the appellant to admit him to bail pending trial.</p><p> The Respondent on the other hand adopted the issues for de…</p>

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