- Egbufor V. State {2019} 15WRN 60
- Onyeyemi V. State {2019 34WRN 75
- Sakiru V. State {2019} 29 WRN 109
- John V. State {2019} 37WRN 143
- Sections 296 and 298 of the Penal Code
- State V. Isiaku{2013} LPELR20521
It is also trite law that robbery is committed by a person who in the
cause of committing theft, carried a dangerous weapon or was
accompanied by another person carrying a dangerous weapon.
- Bello V. State {2007} 10 WRN 564
- Osetola V. State {2012} 17 NWLR pt 1329 p 343
- Adekoya V. State {2017} 18 WRN 1
In the case of Oyeyemi V. State {supra} at page 91 paragraph 15, My
Lord Abdullahi JCA clarified the position of the law in the following
words:“The law is that it is not the requirement of the law that all
the accused persons must be armed with dangerous weapon,
the offence is complete once an offensive weapon is used by
either of the accused persons.”
Part of the evidence of PW2 earlier reproduced in this Judgment, clearly
shows that the victim was robbed of his motorcycle by the defendants
who were armed with iron rods on the date of the incident after he was
beating by the defendants to a state of unconsciousness.
The evidence of PW2 was substantially corroborated by the substance of
the respective statements of the defendants, admitted in evidence and
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