Practitioners must be reminded of this Courts stand on instances such as in the
instant case when in Shurumo V, The State (2001) 196 LRCN 199 it opined thus:"When a counsel stands by and allows exhibits to sail smoothly through to
become evidence without an eyelid, then it becomes obvious that counsel is
comfortable with the evidence without an eyelid, then it becomes obvious that
the counsel is comfortable with the evidence and see no reason why he should
challenge its admission."
And that in Emoga v. The State (1997) 7 SCNJ 578 the Court per Onu JSC had also
said:
"It will not be in the interest of the society to allow a man who has confessed to
his crime to walk out of Court a freeman simply because he has a change of mind.
The whole trial will be a mockery.-....... It would be dangerous to apply the
principle of extra judicial confession of the accused person as it would open a
flood gate of retracing of all statements made by accused persons before the
police officer " (Underlining supplied for emphasis).
In the instant case, therefore, it does not lie in the mouth of learned appellants
counsel who has represented the appellant all through his sojourn, and allowed
Exhibit A to be admitted in evidence without objection, to now say that the
statement be discarded value.
All that I have so far tried to say is that the respondent herein has discharged the
burden the law places on it to establish the charge against the appellant beyond
reasonable as same is devoid of any Probative doubt. The two Courts below are
right to have so found and accordingly convicted the appellant as charged. I find
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