Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 220

220. (1) Whosoever shall be guilty of a grievous bodily harm from which death shall ensue solely as a result of the nature o r the natural consequences of the harm and not of any supervening accidental cause, shall be liable - (a) to imprisonment for a term from six to twenty years, if death shall ensue within forty days to be reckoned from the midnigh t immediately pr eceding the crime; (b) to imprisonment for a term from six to twelve years, if death shall ensue after the said forty days, but within one year to be reckoned as above. (2) If death shall ensue as a result of a supervening accidental cause and not solely as a result of the nature or the natural consequences of the harm, the offender shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term from five to ten years. (3) If the bodily harm is inflicted within the limits of the territorial jurisdiction of Malta, the crime shall be held to h ave been completed within those limits, even if the death of the pe rson injured shall occur outside those limits. Slight bodily harm. Amended by: VIII.1857.3, 5; VI.1871.15; II.1886.8; XI.1900.32; I.1903.7; VIII.1909.19; IX.1911.12; XX.2005.12; XIII.2018.24; XXXII.2018.5.