ACCESSORIES AND ABETTORS.
No. 14 of 1929.
1771
Accessories after the fact.
etc., as
felon. 24 & 25
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 Act or 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 an accessory after the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.
s. 3.
of accessory
24 & 25
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 Act or 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, with or without sureties, 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. 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 that the principal felon is not included in the same indictment or is not in custody or amenable to justice.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 94,
7. Every person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of any misdemeanor, whether the same misdemeanor is at common law or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, shall be liable to be indicted, tried and punished as a principal offender.
Abettor in misdemeanor may be indicted, etc., as principal offender. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 94,
No. 15 of 1929, incorporated in No. 9 of 1921.