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No. 17 of 1919.
INDICTMENTS.
General rule
6. Subject to any other provisions of these rules, it shall be sufficient to describe any place, time, thing, matter, act, or omission whatsoever to which it is necessary to refer in any indictment, in ordinary language in such a manner as to indicate with reasonable clearness the place, time, thing, matter, act or omission referred to.
Statement of intent.
7. It shall not be necessary in stating any intent to defraud, deceive or injure to state an intent to defraud, deceive or injure any particular person, where the statute creating the offence does not make an intent to defraud, deceive or injure a particular person an essential ingredient of the offence.
Interpretation. Ordinance No. 31 of 1911. Short title.
8. The Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, applies for the interpretation of these rules as it applies for the interpretation of an Ordinance.
9. These rules may be cited as the Indictment Rules, 1919, and these rules, together with any rules made under section 2 of the Indictments Ordinance, 1911, may be cited together by such collective title as may be prescribed by the last-mentioned rules.
APPENDIX.
FORMS OF INDICTMENT.
[Rule 1 (5).]
1.
Murder.
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE.
PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE.
A.B., on the day of , at Victoria in this Colony, murdered J.S.
2.
Accessory after the fact to murder.
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE.
PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE.
A.B., well knowing that one, H.C., did on the day of , at Victoria in this Colony, murder C.C., did on the day of , at Victoria in this Colony, and on other days thereafter receive, comfort, harbour, assist, and maintain the said H.C.
3.
Manslaughter.
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE.
PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE.
A.B., on the day of , at Victoria in this Colony, unlawfully killed J.S.
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