The court found that Rabiu Mamman battered his wife to death and burird her remains in a shallow grave.
The judge, Abubakar Sambo, on Wednesday, convicted Rabiu Mamman, a resident of Medin Labo village in Gagarawa Local Government Area of the state, of the crime.
The spokesperson of the state’s Ministry of Justice, Zainab Baba-Santali, said Mr Mamman in 2016 ambushed his wife in a bush in Mesheda and battered her to death with a stick.“In proving fact of the case, the prosecution counsel, Jamilu Mohammed, called four witnesses and tendered the recorded statements of the defendant.
“The defendant testified in his defence by denying the charges against him. The learned trial judge, Abubakar Sambo, ruled that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt for the offence of culpable homicide punishable with death. “The judge, convicted Mr Mamman on the first head count charges and sentenced him to death by hanging under the Section 221 of the
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