Section 175 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 175 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Consequences supervening or not known at previous trial. It provides as follows:

A person acquitted or convicted of any offence constituted by any act or omission causing consequences which together with such act or omission constitute a different offence from that for which he was acquitted or convicted
may afterwards be tried for such last mentioned offence if the consequences had not happened or were not known to the Court to have happened at the time when he was acquitted or convicted when such consequences create the offence of murder or manslaughter.