Discuss the criminal liability of X in the following:-                           (5 marks)

(i) X strikes Z with the intention of causing grievous hurt to him. Z becomes unconscious. X believing him dead hangs him by neck with a tree in order to do away with the evidence. Z dies of strangulation.

(ii) X’s sister was being abducted from her father’s house by her husband to take her to his house. X in order to prevent her abduction stabbed her husband who died in consequence of the injury.

(iii) X with the intentions of procuring a miscarriage, supplied a pregnant woman a bottle containing some liquid and a packet containing some powder. He advised her to take them. On her refusal to do so he approached her with the bottle and took hold of her chin. She however snatched the bottle from him and cried out loudly on which X fled away. The liquid and powder was found to be harmless.