Section 167 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 167 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about On charge of rape conviction for indecent assault may follow. It provides as follows:

If at any trial for rape under the Criminal Law applicable in the State, the facts proved in evidence authorised a conviction for the offence of rape or for an indecent assault and not the offence with which the defendant is charged, he may be convicted of rape or of indecent assault, as the case may be, and he shall be punished as if he had been convicted on a charge or an information charging him with such an offence.