Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015

Section 234 - Where murder or infanticide is charged and concealment of birth is proved

Where a defendant is charged and tried for the murder of child or for infanticide and it appears on the evidence that the defendant was not guilty of murder or of infanticide, as the case may be, but was guilty of the offence of concealment of birth, the defendant may be convicted of that offence.

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