GODWIN IDOMA & ANOR VS THE STATE
(1973) LCN/1772(SC)
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Friday, January 26, 1973
Case Number: SC. 235/1972
JUSTICES:
ELIAS , CHIEF, JUSTICE, NIGERIA
FATAYI-WILLIAMS, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
SOWEMIMO, JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT
APPELLANTS
GODWIN IDOMABAKARE BARUBA
BETWEEN
RESPONDENTS
THE STATE
RATIO
ACCOMPLICE IN CRIMINAL TRIALS
“As has been rightly stated in Okeke v. The Commissioner of Police 12 WACA 363 at p. 365- “It is quite untenable in argument that those who met the monetary demand of the appellant were accomplices to the demand. Nor, in meeting the demand, could they be regarded otherwise than as victims of the appellants’ capacity.” Per FATAYI-WILLIAMS, J.S.C
Godwin Idoma & Anor v. The State
