From the facts and sorrounding circumstances and the evidence
adduced in this case can one reach the conclusion that the factors
stated in the above decision of the Supreme Court apply to the
defendant in this case? The answer to this poser is in the negative.
This is because from exhibits A and A1 which is the extra- judicial
statement of the defendant, it is clear that the defendant knew what
he was doing at the time he took the victim in this case inside his
room and had sexual intercourse with her. If indeed he don’t know
what he was doing he would have requested the victim to lie down
in the open and has sexual intercourse with her in the open but
because he knew what he was doing he took her into his room in
order to hide and commit the act. It is also clear from his statement
to the police that the fact that he stated that when the victim
informed her mother about what happened people came looking for
him with sticks and he had to run to Gagi bush to hide. All these
are not the behaviours of a person who does not know what he was
doing. In the case of EDOHO v STATE (2010) LPELR 10151/SC, the
Supreme Court held as follows: “In the case of Ghobadia v STATE
(2004)6 NWLR pt 869 P.360 this court is of the view that any
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