WEEKLY LEGAL BIT: CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT - MEANING AND WHEN IT CAN SUSTAIN A CONVICTION

                  SOLACE CHAMBERS

            BAYERO UNIVERSITY, KANO

        moto: all are equal before the law

         🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹                          CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT:

     MEANING AND WHEN IT CAN SUSTAIN 

                            A CONVICTION 

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      "A confession is an admission made at any time by a person charged with a criminal offence stating or suggesting that he committed the alleged offence. Consequently, if a confession is free and voluntary it becomes a relevant fact against the maker and thus once a confessional statement is shown to have been made freely and voluntarily, without any threat, inducement or promise, and is direct, positive and properly established, it is sufficient on its own without any other outside corroborative evidence to sufficiently prove of the guilt of the maker and to sustain a conviction."

            ~ Per B. A. Georgewill, JCA

{See the case of EMEKA OBODOCHINA v. THE STATE. APPEAL NO: CA/AS/232C/2019}