See Also:

• EVIDENCE – Medical Evidence – Duty of an Accused Person to Demand the Appearance of the Maker of a Medical Report; Effect of Failure

  "ln respect of the second point raised, which is that the Medical Doctor who issued the Report was not called as a witness and so no weight should have been…

• EVIDENCE – Evidence of an Eyewitness – When Evidence of Eyewitness Will Be Considered the Best Form of Evidence

  "In AGU v. STATE (2017) LPELR-41664(SC)(Pp. 28 paras. A) this Court held that: "The evidence of an eyewitness is one of the best evidence available provided the eyewitness is telling…

• EVIDENCE: Evaluation of Evidence – Primary duty of the trial judge to evaluate evidence – Rationale behind assignment of the role of evaluation of evidence to the trial judge

  “This reluctance is principally grounded on the recognition that the learned trial Judge, who had the undoubted advantage of seeing and hearing the evidence presented by the parties, at first-hand,…

• EVIDENCE – Evidence of an Eyewitness – Whether Eyewitness Testimony is the Best Form of Evidence

  "It has been held several times by this Court that the best evidence the prosecution can lead in a criminal trial is that of an eyewitness. Such evidence is usually…

• EVIDENCE – Proof – Ways of Proving the Commission of a Crime

  "It is noteworthy that in a criminal trial, the prosecution must prove that the death of the deceased person resulted from the act of the Defendant by direct eye witness…