Section 168 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 168 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about On charge of defilement conviction of indecent assault may follow. It provides as follows:

If at any trial for defilement under the Criminal Law applicable in the State, the facts proved in evidence warrant a conviction for an indecent assault and not the offence with which the defendant is charged, the defendant may be convicted of indecent assault although he was not charged with that offence.