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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NIGERIA

IN THE LAGOS JUDICIAL DIVISION

HOLDEN AT LAGOS

 

ON FRIDAY THE 22ND DAY OF MARCH, 2013

 

BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIPS:

 

IBRAHIM M.M. SAULAWA         JUSTICE, COURT OF APPEAL

CHIMA...

AS observed above, Section 309 of the Penal Code under which the trial court acted in the instant case gives the court a wide latitude or discretion to exercise. This the Honourable court exercised as it deemed fit.

The law is trite that once a...

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