1890_CRIMINAL_LAW_PROCEDURE_ORDINANCE — Page 2

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Particulars may be ordered.

Joinder of

offences in

one informa-

tion.

Jurisdiction over offences on the high seas, &c., how alleged.

Information to be filed by Registrar.

Notice of trial on informa- tion.

Process, copy

of informa

tion and

notice of trial

ORDINANCE No. 3 or 1865.

Criminal Law Procedure.

C.D., [or with having robbed, or stolen from the person of C.D., or with a burglary in a dwelling-house, or as the case may be] at E., on the

day of

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And if there be more than one count, then the second, and every subsequent count, if auy, shall, with the like modifications, be in the following form as near as may be:-

"And also with piracy in making a revolt on board of the vessel F., or as the case may be, [or setting fire to a dwelling-house, or as the case may be,] at E., aforesaid [or as the case may be,] on the day and year last aforesaid [or as the case may be.]" [Repealed by Ordinance No. 2 of 1869.] 6. It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to order further particulars. of any charge to be delivered when he shall deem it expedient so to do.

7. Parties may be charged with different felonies and misdemeanors. or with different felonies or misdemeanors in the same information where the person thereby injured is one and the same person, or where the several offences so charged constitute or relate to one and the same transaction, but the Chief Justice or other presiding Judge shall have power to prevent the trial of different felonies or misdemeanors together if such trial would be inexpedient, and in such case he may order separate records to be made up and separate trials to be had.

8. In an information for felony or misdemeanor committed on the High Seas or in Foreign Parts the allegation that the party injured was at the time of the offence charged in the peace of the Queen shall be a sufficient allegation of the jurisdiction of the Court to hear and determine the case.

9. Every information, when so signed as aforesaid, shall be brought to the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court and shall be filed by him in the said Court. [Amended by Ordinance No. 23 of 1882.]

10. The Registrar or his deputy shall indorse on, or annex to, every information and every copy delivered [to the sheriff: Repealed by Ordinance No. 23 of 1882] for service thereof a notice of trial which notice shall specify the Court before which, and the particular session and time when, he will bring the party to trial on the said information, and which shall be in the form in schedule (B) hereunto annexed, or as near thereto as may be.

11. The Crown Solicitor ["The Registrar or a Deputy Registrar" as amended by Ordinance No. 23 of 1882] shall deliver or cause to be to be delivered delivered [to the sheriff: Repealed by Ordinance No. 23 of 1882 and new words substituted] a copy of the information with the notice of trial indorsed.

to sheriff.