Section 79, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) Where a person is charged with murder he may, if theevidence so warrants, be acquitted of murder and convicted of manslaughter if the evidence so warrants although he was not charged with that offence. (2) Where upon the trial of a woman for the murder of her child, being a child under the age of 12 months, and the Court is of the opinion that at the time she, by any wilful act or omission, caused his death but that at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, she may be convicted of infanticide.