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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8тa JULY, 1899.
(4.) If one sentence is passed upon any verdiet of guilty on an indictment containing more counts than one, the sentence shall be good if any of the counts upon which such verdict has been returned would have justified such sentence. 20. In any indictment for an offence committed on the gation that the person fence charged, in the sufficient allegation of the determine the case.
Allegation in case of offence hig
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high seas or in
foreign parts. peace of the Queen shall
jurisdiction of the Court to her
No. 3 of 1865,
B. S.
Averment as
to money or bank note.
No. 2 of 1869, 3.6.
instrument
în indictment,
14 & 15 Vict
21. In any indictment in which it is necessary to make au averment as to any money or any note of the Bank of England or of any other bauk, it shall be sufficient to describe such money or bank note simply as money without specifying any particular coin or bank note; and such allegation, so far as regards the description of the property, shall be sustained by proof of any amount of coin or of any bank note, although the particular species of coin of which such amount was composed, or the particular nature of the bank note, is not proved, and, in cases of embezzling or obtaining money or bank notes by false pretences, by proof that the accused person embezzled or obtained any piece of coin or any bank note, or any portion of the value thereof, although such piece of coin or bank note may have been delivered to him in order that some part of the value thereof should be returned to the person delivering the same, or to any other person, and such part has been returned accord- ingly.
Description of 22.—(1.) In any indictment for stealing, embezzling, destroying, or concealing, or for obtaining by false pretences, any instrument, it shall be sufficient to describe such instru- ment by any name or designation by which it is usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile of the whole or any part thereof, or other- wise describing the same or the value thereof.
c. 100, 95. 5 and
7.
Indictment
14 & 15 Vict. c. 100, s. 20.
(2.) In all other cases where it is necessary to make an averment in any indictment as to any instrument, whether the same consists wholly or in part of writing, print, or figures, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which it is usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or facsimile of the whole or any part thereof.
23. In any indictment for perjury, or for unlawfully, for perjury, wilfully, falsely, fraudulently, deceitfully, maliciously, or corruptly taking, making, signing, or subscribing any oath, affirmation, declaration, affidavit, deposition, petition, answer, notice, certificate, or other writing, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence with which the accused person is charged and by what court or before whom the oath, affirmation, declaration, affidavit, deposition, petition, answer, notice, certificate, or other writing was taken, made, signed, or subscribed, without setting forth the petition, answer, information, indictment, declaration, or any part of any proceeding, and without setting forth the commission or authority of the court or person before which or whom such offence was committed.
Indictment
for suborna
tion of perjury.
14 & 15 Vict. e. 100, s. 21.
Charge of previous conviction.
B., Ordi-
auce, . 103.
24. In any indictment for subornation of perjury, or for corrupt bargaining or contracting with any person to com- mit wilful and corrupt perjury, or for inciting, causing, or procuring any person unlawfully, wilfully, falsely, frandu- lently, deceitfully, maliciously, or corruptly to take, make, sign, or subscribe any oath, affirmation, declaration, affidavit, deposition, petition, answer, notice, certificate, or other writing, it shall be sufficient, wherever such perjury or other offence aforesaid has been actually committed, to allege the offence of the person who actually committed such perjury or other offence in the manner bereinbefore mentioned, and then to allege that the accused person un- lawfully, wilfully, and corruptly did cause and procure the said person to commit the said offence, in manner and form aforesaid; and wherever such perjury or other offence afore- said has not been actually committed, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence with which the accused person is charged without setting forth or averring any of the matters or things hereinbefore rendered unneces- sary to be set forth or averred in the case of wilful and cor- rupt perjury.
25. In any count charging the accused person with having been previously convicted, it shall be sufficient to state that the accused person was, at a certain time and place, convicted of an offence punishable on summary