15
\)
arises from the case presented by the prosecution, the court wi11
bound to resolve any such doubt in favour of the Defendant.
b] dury
see
:
udosen vs state (2007) AFWLR (pr.356) 669 2 699;Akeem vs,
state QolT) LPELR (sc) 42-43; Esseyin vs state (201s) LPELR
(SC) 10-11; Ekpo Vs State (2013) LPELR (SC) s_6.
criminal code Law of Delta state defines stealing in
383 (1), (2), (3) and (a) to include arnong others, the fraudulent
The
Section
taking of a thing capable of being stolen belonging to some other person
or fraudulent conversion it is his own use. In Ayeni Vs State (2010
LPELR (sc) 25, the supreme court (per Kekere-Ekun), JSC stated:
"A
person who fraudulently takes anything capable of being
stolen of fraudulently converts to his own use or to the use
of
any other person, anything capable of being stolen is said to
steal that thing"
See
Oyebanji Vs Srate (2015) LPELR (SC) t6-17.
As earlier pointed out the prosecutior'l case is erected on the
evidence
of PWl, who testified in full and the evidence of pw2, who
abandoned the wifiress box without even concluding his evidence in
chief. The law is that a court cannot act on the evidence of a wifiress
who did not make himsetf available for cross examination after giving
chief- This is because his evidence goes to naught and
camies no weight. see rsiaka vs state (2orl) AFWLR
@ 5E4 966;
evidence in
Al-Mustapha Ys state (2013) LPELR (cA) 102-103.
b