Section 171 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 171 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Where offence proved is included in offence charged. It provides as follows:

(1) In addition to the provisions specifically made in this Law, whenever a person is charged with an offence consisting several particulars, a combination of some only of which constitutes a complete lesser offence in itself and such combination is proved but the remaining particulars are not proved, he may be convicted of such lesser offence or may plead guilty to it although he was not charged with it.

(2) When a person is charged with an offence and facts are proved which reduce it to a lesser offence he may be convicted of the lesser offence although he was not charged with it.