<p style="text-align: center"><strong><u>JUDGMENT</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify"><strong><u>EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, JSC(Delivering the Leading Judgement): </u></strong>This appeal No. SC/CR/421/2020 commenced on 10-12-2018 is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on 16- 11-2018 in Appeal No. CA/J/304C/2017 dismissing the appeal to it and affirming the judgment of the High Court of Yobe State delivered on 13-3-2017 in Criminal Case No. YBS/DT/HC/30C/2016 convicting the appellant of culpable homicide punishable with death and sentenced him to death by hanging. </p><p style="text-align: justify">The parties herein have filed, exchanged and adopted their respective briefs as follows:- appellant&#x27;s brief and respondent&#x27;s brief, and appellant&#x27;s reply brief„ The appellant&#x27;s brief raised the following issues for determination - </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify"><strong>1. &quot;Whether Respondent&#x27;s failure to disclose the place of commission of the offence, the trial court&#x27;s conviction and sentence of the Appellant was proper in law?- relates to Ground 2 of the Amended Notice and Grounds of Appeal. </strong></p><p style="text-align: justify"><strong>2. Whether having regards to the totality of the evidenc…</strong></p></blockquote>