Section 169 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 169 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Where murder or infanticide is charged and concealment of birth is proved. It provides as follows:

Where at the trial of any defendant for the murder of any child or for infanticide it appears from the evidence that such a defendant is not guilty of murder or of infanticide but is guilty of the offence of concealing the birth of a child under the Criminal Law applicable in the State, such a defendant may be found guilty and convicted of that offence.