CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL CONNECTED CASES IN NIGERIAN COURTS
TITLE | MAIN ISSUES |
WIFE KILLING: – Women and Domestic violence – Husband stabs wife to death – Plea of drunkenness and provocation. Degree of drunkenness and provocation required to reduce murder to manslaughter – Relevant considerations | |
BAALO V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA |
Indian Hemp – Knowingly being found in possession of – Guilty plea – How treated |
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Women and substance/drug abuse – Justice administration – Death arising from a moment of mutual drunkenness – Wife-killing via a revolver shot by husband – Dying declaration of wife designed to protect husband and testimony of husband asserting accident – Where upstaged by conflicting circumstantial evidence – Duty of court thereto to consider both murder and manslaughter – Effect of considering murder alone |
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