Section 148 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 148 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Particulars of a charge. It provides as follows:

(1) The charge shall contain such particulars as to the date and place of the offence, and the person, if any, against whom or the thing, if any, in respect of which it was committed as are reasonably sufficient to give the defendant notice of the matter with which he is charged.

(2) Where the defendant is charged with criminal breach of trust, fraudulent appropriation of property, fraudulent falsification of accounts or fraudulent conversion, it shall be sufficient to specify the gross sum in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed and the dates between which the offence is alleged to have been committed without specifying particular items or exact dates and the charge so framed shall be deemed to be a charge of one offence within the meaning of section 152.

(3) The particulars in the charge shall describe the offence concisely in ordinary language avoiding as far as possible the use of technical terms.

(4) Where the nature of the offence is such that the particulars required by section 147 and subsections (1) to (3) of this section do not give the defendant sufficient notice of the matter with which he is charged, the charge shall also contain such particulars of the manner in which the offence was committed as will be sufficient for that purpose.

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