SUNDAY JACKSON V. THE STATE

MOHAMMED BABA IDRIS JSC (DELIVERING THE LEADING JUDGMENT): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal Yola Division (coram Honourable Justices Chidi Nwaoma Uwa, JCA, Jamilu Yammama Tukur, JCA and Mohammed Lawal Abubakar, JCA) delivered on the 27th day of June, 2022, wherein the court below dismissed the Appellant's appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence of the Appellant by the trial High Court in its judgment delivered on the 10th day of February, 2021 in Charge No: ADSY/30C/2017.

The Appellant was arraigned on a one-count charge of culpable homicide punishable with death contrary to Section 221(a) of the Penal Code CAP 98 Laws of Adamawa State 1997 to which the Appellant pleaded not guilty.

On or about the 27th of January 2015, in a bush within the village area of Kodomti in Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State, the Appellant was alleged to have caused the death of Arda Bawuro by stabbing him with a knife twice on the neck to cause his death.

At the t…