ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1865.
Accessories and Abettors.
in addition to such punishment: Provided that no person shall be imprisoned under this clause for not finding sureties for any period exceeding one year.
As to Accessories generally:
5. If any principal offender shall be in anywise convicted of any felony, it shall be lawful to proceed against any accessory, either before or after the fact, in the same manner as if such principal felon had been attainted thereof, notwithstanding such principal felon shall die, or be pardoned, or otherwise delivered before attainder; and every such accessory shall upon conviction suffer the same punishment as he would have suffered if the principal had been attainted.
6. Any number of accessories at different times to any felony, and any number of receivers at different times of property stolen at one time, may be charged with substantive felonies in the same indictment or information, and may be tried together, notwithstanding the principal felon shall not be included in the same indictment or information, or shall not be in custody or amenable to justice.
7. Where any felony shall have been wholly committed within this Colony, the offence of any person who shall be an accessory either before or after the fact to any such felony may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined and punished by the Court which shall have jurisdiction to try the principal felony, or any felonies committed in the place in which the act by reason whereof such person shall have become such accessory shall have been committed; and in every other case the offence of any person who shall be an accessory either before or after the fact to any felony may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined and punished by the Court which shall have jurisdiction to try the principal felony or any felonies committed in the place in which such person shall be apprehended or be in custody, whether the principal felony shall have been committed on the sea or on the land, or begun on the sea and completed on the land, or begun on the land and completed on the sea, whether within Her Majesty's dominions or without, or partly within Her Majesty's dominions and partly without: Provided that no person who shall be once duly tried either as an accessory before or after the fact, or for a substantive felony under the provisions hereinbefore contained, shall be liable to be afterwards prosecuted for the same offence. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 1 of 1866.]
As to Abettors in Misdemeanors:
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Prosecution of accessory after principal convicted, &c.
Several accessories may be included in same indictment or information.
Trial of accessories
8. [As amended by Ordinance No. 1 of 1866.] Whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the commission of any misdemeanor,
Abettors in misdemeanors.