MBANEFO V. STATE

RITA NOSAKHARE PEMU, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court Onitsha in charge No. 0/2c/2015, delivered on the 8th of February, 2018.

The Appellant was found guilty of murder and was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging.

Regrettably, the Appellant’s Counsel did not deem it necessary to give a synopsis of the facts of this case in his Brief of Argument.

The only facts that the Respondent proffered is that the Appellant murdered his wife Nwabugo Obi at a farm in Akili Ogidi Village, Ogbaru, by hitting her on the head with a stone on the 20th of August, 2014.

The Appellant is dissatisfied with the judgment and has appealed it.

Pursuant to the Practice Directions of this Honourable Court, the Appellant filed a Notice of Appeal on the 8th of February 2018 encapsulating five (5) Grounds of Appeal – Pages 179 – 205 of the Record of Appeal.

​Let me quickly say by way of observation that the manner in which the Grounds of Appeal were …