DEFENCE(S) OF ACCUSED PERSON(S) - Whether the duty of the Court to consider all defences available to an accused extends to formulating/inventing a defence for the accused person
HELD:
"In raising, for the first time, the fresh issue of insanity under Ground one polymerised to such an elusive elasticity the Appellant's counsel had apparently misconceived the dictum of this Court in STATE v. JOHN (2013) 12 NWLR (pt. 1368) 337 at 355, and Section 22 of the Supreme Court Act.
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