Section 163 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 163 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about On charge of an offence, conviction as accessory after the fact to that or connected offence may follow. It provides as follows:

Where a person is charged with an offence and the evidence establishes that he became an accessory after the fact to that offence or to some other offence of which a person charged with the first mentioned offence may be convicted by virtue of the provisions of any of sections 160, 161 and 164 to 171, he may be convicted as an accessory after the fact to that offence or that other offence, as the case may be, and be punished accordingly.