Umar Aliyu for the prosecution S. ovia. I appear with E. Akam and C.B Sarkin Noma for the defendant. Umar Aliyu. The defendant is before the court. He speaks and understands Hausa language. He is standing trial for the offence of culpable homicide punishable with death contrary to section 191 of The Sokoto state penal code. The matter is adjourned to today for hearing. We intend to call a total number of 9 witnesses and out of which 3 are before the court. We are ready to proceed. S. ovia. We are ready. PW1 Sat Abdulazeez Bello My name is Sat Abdulazeez Bello I live at Marina Police Barrack in Sokoto. I’m a Police officer presently I’m attached to S.I.B but before then I was with C.I.D office Sokoto as an I.P.O as police investigating officer we received complaint from the complainants we also record statements from both parties and witnesses. I know the defendant in the year of 2019 on the 29th of Sept, 2019 I was at homicide section of the state C.I.D office Sokoto when a case of criminal conspiracy causing hunt and culpable homicide was recorded to our section for investigation. The case was transferred from Dange Shuni Divisional headquarter on receipt of the case our team was detailed to investigate and I was assigned to record the statement of the suspect and that of the complainant. The other members of our team include inspector Danjuma Giwa, conponal