justice with mercy. To the best of my knowledge, the convicts are first term offenders. SENTENCE Court: By the provisions of Section 310 (3) of the ACJL of Sokoto State 2019, a trial court after conviction while sentencing the convict, is required to take into consideration all aggravating and mitigating information or evidence as a guide in deciding the nature and extent of the sentence to be imposed on the convict. I have taken into consideration the allocutus made by the defence counsel on behalf of the convicts as well as the response of the prosecuting counsel before passing this sentence on the convicts as a guide in deciding the nature and extent of the sentence to be imposed on the convicts. By the provision of Section 195 of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law 2019, whoever causes the death of any person by doing an act not amounting to culpable homicide, but done with the intention of causing hurt or grievous hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than seven {7} years or with fine of not less than five hundred thousand naira or with both. From the wordings of the section it is very clear that a trial court has been given some discretion to exercise in relation imprisonment or option of fine in lieu of imprisonment. It is trite law that where a statute gives discretion to a trial court to exercise in sentencing the convict and it has become judicious and Page 9 of 11