of the Penal Code Law Cap. 104 Laws of Sokoto State 1996 beyond reasonable doubt, and I so hold. I therefore found the Defendants guilty as charged. As to the 3rd count charge in respect of the offence of Causing Grievous Hurt, the foregoing quoted pieces of evidence of PW4 earlier reproduced in this judgment, is very clear in respect of this charge. Taking the risk of repeating myself, PW4 testified as follows:“…the 3rd Defendant dropped from the motorcycle with an intention to cut Fahad. So on seeing that I rushed to save Fahad and got hold of the 3rd Defendant, and in the process, the 3rd Defendant inflicted matchet cut on my right hand shoulder with a cutlass.” Corroborating this piece of evidence, is the evidence of the 1st Defendant who testified as DW1 who in his evidence in chief confirmed that injury was inflicted on one of the persons in company of PW4. The 2nd Defendant as DW2, also confirmed the evidence in chief of the 1st Defendant who testified as DW1. The evidence of PW4 having been corroborated by the evidence in chief of the 1st and 2nd Defendants as DW1 and DW2 respectively, is hereby believed and accepted by this court in respect of this offence as the truth of what happened against one Babangida Aliyu who testified as PW4 in this case. From the foregoing pieces of evidence, it is the humble view of this court that the Defendants did in fact voluntarily caused Grievous Hurt against the person of one Babangida Aliyu without any provocation. Having held as above, I also agree with the prosecution that the Page 19 of 27