Section 313 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria. Injury causing death in consequence of subsequent treatment

When a person does grievous harm to another, and such other person has recourse to surgical or medical treatment, and death results either from the injury or the treatment, he is deemed to have killed that other person, although the immediate cause of death was the surgical or medical treatment, provided that the treatment was reasonably proper under the circumstances, and was applied in good faith.

Section 313 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria

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