828
Receiving where the principal is guilty of felony.
Information for stealing and receiving.
Separate receivers may be included in the same information in the absence of the principal.
ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1865.
Larceny, &c.
parchment, in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into or used or dealt with as a valuable security, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for the term of three years,—or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement.
As to receiving Stolen Goods :-
75. Whosoever shall receive any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property whatsoever, the stealing, taking, extorting, obtaining, embezzling, or otherwise disposing whereof shall amount to a felony, either at Common Law or by virtue of this Ordinance, knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or disposed of, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted, either as an accessory after the fact or for a substantive felony, and in the latter case, whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice; and every such receiver, howsoever convicted, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping: Provided, that no person, howsoever tried for receiving as aforesaid, shall be liable to be prosecuted a second time for the same offence.
76. If any information shall have been preferred against two or more persons, it shall be lawful for the jury who shall try the same to find all or any of the said persons guilty either of stealing the property or of receiving the same, or any part or parts thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, or to find one or more of the said persons guilty of stealing the property, and the other or others of them guilty of receiving the same or any part or parts thereof knowing the same to have been stolen.
77. Whenever any property whatsoever shall have been stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or otherwise disposed of in such a manner as to amount to a felony, either at Common Law or by virtue of this Ordinance, any number of receivers at different times of such property, or of any part or parts thereof, may be charged with substantive felonies
828
Receiving where the principal is guilty of felony.
Information for stealing and receiving.
Separate
receivers may
be included in the same information
in the absence
of the princi-
pal.
ORDINANCE No. 7 or 1865.
Larceny, &c.
parchment, in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into or used or dealt with as a valuable security, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for the term of three years,—or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without. hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement.
As to receiving Stolen Goods :-
75. Whosoever shall receive any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property whatsoever, the stealing, taking, extorting, obtaining, embezzling, or otherwise disposing whereof shall amount to a felony, either at Common Law or by virtue of this Ordinance, knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or disposed of, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted, either as an accessory after the fact or for a substantive felony, and in the latter case, whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice; and every such receiver, howsoever convicted, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and. with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping: Provided, that no person, howsoever tried for receiving as aforesaid, shall be liable, to be prosecuted a second time for the same offence.
76. If any information shall have been preferred against two or more persons, it shall be lawful for the jury who shall try the same to find all or any of the said persons guilty either of stealing the property or of receiving the same, or any part or parts thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, or to find one or more of the said persons guilty of stealing the property, and the other or others of them guilty of receiving the same or any part or parts thereof knowing the same to have been stolen.
77. Whenever any property whatsoever shall have been stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or otherwise disposed of in such a manner as to amount to a felony, either at Common Law or by virtue of this Ordinance, any number of receivers at different times of such property, or of any part or parts thereof, may be charged with substantive felonies
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