IDRIS ADAMU V. THE STATE

EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, J.S.C. (DELIVERING THE LEADING JUDGEMENT): This Appeal No. SC. 812/2014 is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on 31- 3-2014 in Appeal No. CA/L/867/2011 affirming the judgment of the High Court of Lagos State in criminal case No. LD/118C/2006 delivered on 1-3-2011 convicting and sentencing the appellant to 21 years imprisonment for conspiracy to commit armed robbery. 

The parties herein have filed, exchanged and adopted their respective briefs as follows - appellant's amended brief, respondent's amended brief and reply brief. 

The appellant's amended brief raised two issues for determination as follows 

1. "Whether the Court of Appeal was right when it affirmed the conviction of the Appellant in the absence of credible evidence adduced at the trial Court by the prosecution in proof of the offence for which the Appellant was charged. 

2. Whether the Court of Appeal was right when it affirmed the conviction of the Appellant despite his untested retra…