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Punishment of accessory after the fact. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 4.
Prosecution of accessory after conviction of principal offender. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 5.
No. 3 of 1865.
ACCESSORIES AND ABETTORS.
5. Every accessory after the fact to any felony (except where it is otherwise specially enacted), whether the same is a felony at common law or by virtue of any Ordinance, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, and it shall be lawful for the court to require the offender to enter into his own recognizances and to find sureties, both or either, for keeping the peace, in addition to such punishment: Provided that no person shall be imprisoned under this section for not finding sureties for any period exceeding one year.
Accessories generally.
6. If any principal offender is 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 may die, or be pardoned, or otherwise delivered before attainder; and every such accessory shall, on conviction, suffer the same punishment as he would have suffered if the principal had been attainted.
7. 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 and may be tried together, notwithstanding the principal felon is not included in the same indictment or is not in custody or amenable to justice.
in same indictment. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 6.
Abettor in misdemeanor may be indicted, etc., as principal offender. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 94, s. 8.
8. Every person who aids, abets, counsels, or procures the commission of any misdemeanor, whether the same is a misdemeanor at common law or by virtue of any Ordinance, shall be liable to be indicted, tried and punished as a principal offender.
[Originally No. 6 of 1865. No. 17 of 1919. No. 11 of 1922. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
Short title.
No. 4 of 1865.
An Ordinance to prevent certain corrupt practices in connection with documents.
[14th June, 1865.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Corrupt Practices (Documentary) Ordinance, 1865.
[ss. 2, 3, and 4, rep. No. 11 of 1922.] As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923. The repeal by No. 11 of 1922 (Forgery) of the major portion of this Ordinance, which was called the Forgery Ordinance, 1865, in the New Revised Edition, has necessitated an amendment of the title and of section 1.