- Abacha V. State (2002) 11 NWLR pt. 779 p. 437. - Patric Njovena V. State (1973) 5 SC p. 17 at 263264. From the evidence of PW2 and the confessional statements of the defendants marked as Exhibits D, D1 and E and E1, evidence of same community efforts on the part of all the defendants towards or aimed at committing a crime is not only established, but an apparent agreement to commit a crime by all the defendants has also been established. I am therefore in complete agreement with the prosecuting counsel that the prosecution has proved all the elements of the offence of Criminal Conspiracy punishable under Section 60 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law 2019 beyond reasonable doubt, and I so hold. As to the 2nd count charge of Causing Hurt while committing robbery, by the provision of Section 289 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law, 2019, the offence is complete when hurt is caused to someone in the cause of committing robbery. PW2 in his evidence in chief testified before this court as follows:“After I took them to where they requested me to take them and while I was waiting for them to pay me, one of them inflicted a matchet cut on my head and hand, and it was the 1st defendant who inflicted the matchet cut on me and they forcefully dispossessed me of my motorcycle.” As to what they were carrying used in robbing him of his motorcycle, PW2 further testified as follows:- Page 18 of 22