Other Citations RATIO DECIDENDI 1. APPEAL - GROUND(S) OF APPEAL: Whether the success of an appeal depends on the number of grounds of appeal "It must outrightly be observed that the four issues the appellant distilled from his fifteen grounds of appeal are prolix. Indeed most of them are unnecessary and uncalled for. This Court has repeatedly frowned at this practice and still views it as poor advocacy. The success of an appeal, the Court has held in very many of its decisions, neither depends on the number or grounds of appeal nor the issues formulated from the grounds. In addition to the competence of the two, their substantiality is even more overriding. see G. K. F. INVESTMENT (NIG) LTD v. NITEL PLC (2009) LPELR-1294 (SC) and Kupoluyi v. Phillips (2001) 13 NWLR (Pt 731) 736. The instant appeal questions the lower Court's affirmation of the trial Court's findings of fact, impression of the witnesses and the credibility attached to the witnesses, the Court's entire evaluation of evidence leading to the conviction and imposition of and the nature of prison term on the appellant. Certainly, the appellant does not require the fifteen grounds of appeal and the four issues to make bare his grudges and succeed in the appeal. See Sossa v. Fokpo (2001) 1 NWLR (Pt 693) 16 and Ogbuanyinya & 3 Ors v Okudo & Ors (No. 2) (1990) 4 NWLR (Pt 146) 551 at 556." Per MUHAMMAD, J.S.C. (Pp. 13-14, Paras. A-B) (...read in context) 2. CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE - OFFENCE OF RAPE: What the prosecution must prove to succeed in a charge of rape or unlawul carnal knowledge