prosecution has proved all the elements of the offence of Causing Grievous Hurt as defined by Section 241(g) of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law Cap. 104 Laws of Sokoto State 1996 and punishable under Section 247 of the same Code and found the 3 Defendants guilty as charged. From the evidence before this court, the Defendants appeared to have a common intention towards achieving a common goal on the date of the incident which common intention can be inferred from the way and manner they drove themselves on one motorcycle to the scene of crime. By the provision of Section 79 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law Cap. 104 Laws of Sokoto State 1996, where a Criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all as in this case, each of such persons is liable for that act in the same manner as if it were done by him alone. It has also been held by a plethora of cases that where more than one person are accused of joint commission of crime, there joint participation is enough to prove that they all participated in the commission of the crime, and what each of them did in furtherance of the commission of the crime, is immaterial as the common intention being manifested in the execution of the common object, is enough to render each of the accused persons in the group guilty of the offence. - Nwankwoala V. State (2006) 14 NWLR pt 1000 p 663. - Oyakhire V. State (2001) 15 NWLR pt 1001 p 157. - Ikenson V. State (1989) 3 NWLR pt 110 p 455. - Adekunle V. State (1989) 5 NWLR pt 123 p 505. Page 20 of 27