1023
ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1869.
Criminal Law and Procedure.
Coin and bank notes may be described simply as money. See 14 and 15 V. c. 100. s.18.1 Punishment for certain indictable misdemeanors. See ibid s. 29.] Crown cases reserved.
6. In every information in which it shall be necessary to make any averment as to any money or any note of the Bank of England or any other bank it shall be sufficient to describe such money or bank note simply as money without specifying any particular coin or bank note; and such allegation so far as regards the description of the property shall be sustained by proof of any amount of coin or of any bank note, although the particular species of coin of which such amount was composed, or the particular nature of the bank note, shall not be proved, and in cases of embezzlement and obtaining money or bank notes by false pretences, by proof that the offender embezzled or obtained any piece of coin or any bank note, or any portion of the value thereof, although such piece of coin or bank note may have been delivered to him in order that some part of the value thereof should be returned to the party delivering the same, or to any other person and such part shall have been returned accordingly.
7. Whenever any person shall be convicted of any one of the offences following as an indictable misdemeanor; that is to say, any cheat or fraud punishable at common law; any conspiracy to cheat or defraud, or to extort money or goods, or falsely to accuse of any crime, or to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat the course of public justice; any escape or rescue from lawful custody on a criminal charge; any public and indecent exposure of the person; any public selling, or exposing for public sale or to public view, of any obscene book, print, picture, or other indecent exhibition, it shall be lawful for the Court to sentence the offender to be imprisoned for any term now warranted by law, and also, in its discretion, to be kept to hard labour during the whole or any part of such term of imprisonment.
8. The Chief Justice may in his discretion reserve for further consideration any question of law which may arise upon the trial of any information and in case the person tried shall be convicted, may postpone judgment until such question shall have been considered and decided, and in the meanwhile may commit the person convicted to prison or take a recognizance of bail with one or two sufficient sureties and in such sum as he shall think fit conditioned to appear at such time or times as he shall direct and to receive judgment; and upon such further consideration of the question so reserved as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to affirm or quash the conviction.
1023
ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1869.
Criminal Law and
rocedure.
Coin and bank notes may be des
cribed simply
as money.
See 14 and
15 V. c. 100. 8.18.1
Punishment
for certain in dictable mis demeanors. See ibid s. 29.]
Crown cases reserved.
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6. In every information in which it shall be necessary to make any averment as to any money or any note of the Bank of England or any other bank it shall be sufficient to describe such money or bank note simply as money without specifying any particular coin or bank note; and such allegation so far as regards the description of the property shall be sustained by proof of any amount of coin or of any bank note, although the particular species of coin of which such amount was composed, or the particular nature of the bank note, shall not be proved, and in cases of embezzlement and obtaining money or bank notes by false pretences, by proof that the offender embezzled or obtained any piece of coin or any bank note, or any portion of the value thereof, although such piece of coin or bank note may have been delivered to him in order that some part of the value thereof should be returned to the party delivering the same, or to any other person and such part shall have been returned accordingly.
7. Whenever
r any person shall be convicted of any one of the offences following as an indictable misdemeanor; that is to say, any cheat or fraud punishable at common law; any conspiracy to cheat or defraud, or to extort money or goods, or falsely to accuse of any crime, or to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat the course of public justice; any escape or rescue from lawful custody on a criminal charge; any public and indecent exposure of the person; any public selling, or exposing for public sale or to public view, of any obscene book, print, picture, or other indecent exhibition, it shall be lawful for the Court to sentence the offender to be imprisoned for any term now warranted by law, and also, in its discretion, to be kept to hard labour during the whole or any part of such term of imprisonment.
8. The Chief Justice may in his discretion reserve for further con- sideration any question of law which may arise upon the trial of any information and in case the person tried shall be convicted, may postpone judgment until such question shall have been considered and decided, and in the meanwhile may commit the person convicted to prison or take a recognizance of bail with one or two sufficient sureties and in such sum as he shall think fit conditioned to appear at such time or times as he shall direct and to receive judgment; and upon such further consideration of the question so reserved as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to affirm or quash the conviction.
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