“On Tuesday 31/3/2020 at about 11:00pm, I was at Kwanberu junction going home opposite the house of late Alhaji Tore, I heard someone has cut me with a cutlass at my back. I then hugged him and two of us fell down on the ground.” Linking the foregoing portion of the defendant’s statement with the evidence of PW1 and PW2, one can logically draw inference that the pool of blood in which the deceased was found lying on the ground as disclosed by the evidence of PW1 and PW2, was nothing but the result of the level of use of the cutlass against the body of the deceased by the defendant and those in his company during the incident which later resulted to the death of the deceased. In the case of Adebayo V. State (2007) ALL FWLR pt 365 p 498 at 519, the status of circumstantial evidence was explicitly stated in the following words:“Circumstantial evidence is a series of circumstances leading to the inference or conclusion of guilt when direct evidence is not available. Evidence which although not directly establishing the existence of fact required to be proved, is admissible as making the facts in issue probable by reason of its connection with or in relation to the extent that it is sometimes regarded as of higher value than direct evidence...” The circumstances disclosed by the evidence of PW1 and PW2 read together with the foregoing portion of the defendant’s statement, is incompatible with the innocence of the defendant with regards to his Page 23 of 34