ACCESSORIES AND ABETTORS. No. 3 of 1865.
No. 3 of 1865.
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An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating to accessories to and abettors of indictable offences.
[14th June, 1865.]
No. 5 of 1865.
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Accessories and Abettors Ordinance, 1865.
Accessories before the fact.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 94.
2. Every person who becomes an accessory before the fact to any felony, whether the same is a felony at common law or by virtue of any Ordinance, may be indicted, tried, convicted, and punished in all respects as if he were a principal felon.
Accessory before the fact may be indicted, etc., as principal.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 1.
3. Every person who counsels, procures, or commands any other person to commit any felony, whether the same is a felony at common law or by virtue of any Ordinance, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory before the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon has or has not been previously convicted or is or is not amenable to justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same manner as any accessory before the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.
Accessories after the fact.
4. Every person who becomes an accessory after the fact to any felony, whether the same is a felony at common law or by virtue of any Ordinance, may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory after the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon has or has not been previously convicted or is or is not amenable to justice, and may thereupon be punished in like manner as any accessory after the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 3.