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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
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(2) Every indictment may be in the Form No. 1 in the Schedule to Ordinance, with such additions and modifications as may be necessary to adapt it to the circumstances of the particular case.
Form No. 1.
19.(1.) Any number of counts for any offences whatever may be joined in the same indictment, and shall be sufficiently distinguished: provided that to a count charging murder no count charging any offence other than murder shall be joined.
Joinder of counts and proceedings thereon.
Where there are more counts than one in an indictment, each count may be treated as a separate indictment.
If the Court thinks it conducive to the ends of justice to do so, it may direct that the accused person shall be tried upon any one or more of such counts separately. Such order may be made either before or in the course of the trial, and, if it is made in the course of the trial, the jury shall be discharged from giving a verdict upon the counts on which the trial is not to proceed.
The counts in the indictment which are not then tried shall be proceeded upon in all respects as if they had been contained in a separate indictment: Provided that, unless there are special reasons for so doing, no order shall be made preventing the trial at the same time of any number of distinct charges of larceny, or of embezzlement, or of larceny and embezzlement, not exceeding three, alleged to have been committed within six months from the first to the last of such offences, whether against the same person or not.
If one sentence is passed upon any verdict 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 high seas or in foreign parts, an allegation that the person injured was, at the time of the offence charged, in the peace of the Queen shall be a sufficient allegation of the jurisdiction of the Court to hear and determine the case.
Allegation in case of offence committed on high seas or in foreign parts.
21. In any indictment in which it is necessary to make an averment as to any money or any note of the Bank of England or of any other bank, 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.