Judicial attitude to homicide in Nigeria

JUDICIAL  ATTITUDE TO HOMICIDE IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

Criminal Law in Nigeria is so wide that it applies to a wide range of crimes. a crime is and actatute or by the Common Law to be a public wrong and is therefore punishable by the state in Criminal proceeding. The crime of homicide which can be divided into two namely, lawful homicides which is a division of homicides justified or excused by law and they are self defence, suppression of riot, defence of property etc. unlawful homicides is prohibited by law with very stiff punishment melted out to its offenders. Unlawful homicides could be either murder or manslaughter, murder is an intentional killing of and human being and its carries a severe punishment of a sentence to death while manslaughter is an unintentional killing of another which must have been through provocation, negligence, causation, omission etc. and its carries a sentence of life imprisonment.the actus reus and mens rea of a crime must be proven before and accused can be convicted, the burden of proving that the accused committed the crime is on the prosecution and it never shifts. This study will be narrowed down to homicide generally ,the problems facing in the proving of guilt of an accused person by the prosecution and solutions will be proferred.
Chapter one, general introduction to the whole will be discussed.
The second chapter unearths the different definition of crime by different jurists and legal writers,ts and legal writers, it will discuss the burden of prove in Criminal Cases,and the ingredients that constitute crime.
Chapter three discusses extensively the critical and general overview of the meaning of homicide, under which lawful and unlawful would be discussed.
Chapter four espouses the main aim of this study where the judicial trend of Courts will be discussed, also the origin and meaning of punishment, enforcement of homicides laws, punishment for crime of homicides will be discussed.
The fifth chapter closes with the summary of the whole study, Recommendation would have been made towards the advancement of Criminal Law through the provisions of both the criminal code and the penal code.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CASES
TABLE OF STATUTES
LIST OF ABBREVIATION

CHAPTER ONE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.0.0: INTRODUCTION
1.1.0: BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
1.2.0: OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
13.0: FOCUS OF THE STUDY
1.4.0: SCOPE OF STUDY
1.5.0: METHODOLOGY
1.6.0: LITERATURE REVIEW
1.7.0: DEFINITION OF TERMS
1.8.0: CONCLUSION
CHAPTER TWO
INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT OF CRIME
2.0.0: INTRODUCTION
2.1.0: MEANING OF CRIME
2.2.0: INGREDIENTS THAT CONSTITUTE CRIME
2.2.1: ACTUS REUS
2.2.2: ACTS
2.2.3: OMISSIONS
2.2.4: ACTUS REUS AND CAUSATION
2.3.0: PRINCIPLESOFMENS REA
2.3.1: INTENTION
2.3.2: PROOF OF INTENTION
2.3.3: RECKLESSNESS
2.3.4: KNOWLEGDE
2.3.5 NEGLIGENCE
2.3.6: MOTIVE
2.4.0: BURDEN OF PROOF IN CRIMINAL CASES
2.5.0: CONCLUSION
CHAPTER THREE
A CRITICAL AND GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE MEANING OF HOMICIDE
3.0.0: INTRODUCTION
3.1.0: WHAT IS HOMICIDE?
3.2.0: DISTINCTION BETWEEN LAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL
HOMICIDE
3.3.0: UNLAWFUL HOMICIDE
3.3.1: MURDER-CULPABABLE HOMICIDE PUNISHABLE WITH
DEATH
3.3.2: MANSLAUGHTER-CULPABABLE HOMICIDE NOT
PUNISHABLE WITH DEATH
3.3.3: VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
3.3.4: ELEMENTS OF PROVOCATION
3.3.5: INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
3.4.0: LAWFUL HOMICIDE
3.4.1: EXECUTION OF SENTENCE
3.4.2: SELF DEFENCE
3.4.3: DEATH BY MISADVENTURE
3.4.4: SUPPRESSION OF RIOT
3.4.5: DEFENCE OF PROPERTY
3.4.6: CONSENT TO DEATH
3.4.7: PREVENTION OF CERTAIN OFFENCES
3.4.8: LAWFUL ARREST, PREVENTING ARREST OR RESCUE
AFTER ARREST
3.4.9: KILLING OF THIEVES
3.5.0: CONCLUSION

CHAPTER FOUR
EXAMINATION OF JUDICIAL ATTITUDE TO HOMICIDE IN NIGERIA
4.0.0: INTRODUCTION
4.1.0: ORIGIN OF PUNISHMENT
4.2.0: ENFORCEMENT OF HOMICIDE LAWS IN NIGERIA
4.3.0: PUNISHMENT FOR THE CRIME HOMICIDE
4.4.0: JUDICIAL TREND OF COURTS IN HOMICIDE CASES
IN NIGERIA
4.5.0: CONCLUSION
CHAPTER FIVE
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.0.0: CONCLUSION
5.1.0: RECOMMENDATION

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