CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

No. 9 of 1899.

901

(2) The payment of such costs and expenses or any part thereof may be ordered by the court to be made out of any moneys taken from such person on his apprehension, or may be enforced at the instance of any person liable to pay or who may have paid the same in such and the same manner as the payment of any costs ordered to be paid by judgment or order of the Supreme Court in any civil action or proceeding may be enforced: Provided that in the meantime and until the recovery of such costs and expenses from the person so convicted as aforesaid or from his estate, the same shall be paid and provided for in the same manner as if this Ordinance had not been passed; and any money which may be recovered in respect thereof from the person so convicted, or from his estate, shall be applicable to the reimbursement of any person or fund by whom or out of which such costs and expenses may have been paid or defrayed.

73.-(1) It shall be lawful for the court, on the application of any person aggrieved and immediately after the conviction of any person for an indictable offence, to award any sum of money, not exceeding five hundred dollars, by way of satisfaction or compensation for any loss of property suffered by the applicant through or by means of the said offence.

(2) The amount awarded for such satisfaction or compensation shall be deemed a judgment debt due to the person entitled to receive the same from the person so convicted, and the order for payment of such amount may be enforced in such and the same manner as in the case of any costs or expenses ordered by the court to be paid under section 72.

Arraignment and trial of insane person.

74.(1) If an accused person appears, either before or on arraignment, to be insane, the court may order a jury to be empanelled to try the sanity of such person, and the jury shall thereupon, after hearing evidence for that purpose, find whether such person is or is not insane and unfit to take his trial.

(2) If, during the trial of an accused person, such person appears, after the hearing of evidence to that effect or otherwise, to the jury charged with the indictment to be insane, the court shall in such case direct the jury to abstain from finding a verdict upon the indictment and, in lieu thereof, to return a verdict that such person is insane: Provided that

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.

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