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11 & 12 Vict. c. 12 s. 4. Charging of more than one overt act in indictment. Ib. s. 6. Saving as to 25 Edw. 3 s. 5 c. 2. Ib. s. 6. Case of offence proved being other than offence charged, etc. Ib. s. 7. Punishment of accessories, Ib. s. 8.
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unless information of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, and intentions, and of the words by which the same were expressed, uttered, or declared, is given upon oath or declaration to one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace within six days after such words have been spoken, and unless a warrant for the apprehension of the person by whom such words have been spoken is issued within ten days after such information has been given as aforesaid, and that no person shall be convicted of any such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, in so far as the same are expressed, uttered, or declared by open or advised speaking as aforesaid, except on his own confession in open Court or unless the words so spoken are proved by two credible witnesses.
5. In an indictment for any felony under this Ordinance, it shall be lawful to charge against the offender any number of the matters, acts, or deeds by which such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, or any of them, have been expressed, uttered, or declared.
6. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall lessen the force of or in any manner affect anything enacted by the statute passed in the twenty-fifth year of King Edward the Third, entitled "A Declaration which Offences shall be adjudged Treason."
7. If the facts or matters alleged in an indictment for any felony under this Ordinance amount in law to treason, such indictment shall not, by reason thereof, be deemed void, erroneous, or defective; and if the facts or matters proved at the trial of any person charged with any felony under this Ordinance amount in law to treason, such person shall not, by reason thereof, be entitled to be acquitted of such felony; but no person tried for such felony shall be afterwards prosecuted for treason upon the same facts.
8.(1.) In the case of every felony punishable under this Ordinance, every principal in the second degree and every accessory before the fact shall be punishable in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Ordinance punishable.
(2.) Every accessory after the fact to any such felony shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement,
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11 & 12 Fict. c. 12 s. 4.
Charging of more than
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unless information of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, de- vices, and intentions, and of the words by which the same were express- ed, uttered, or declared, is given upon oath or declaration to one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace within six days after such words have been spoken, and unless a warrant for the apprehension of the per- son by whom such words have been spoken is issued within ten days after such information has been given as aforesaid, and that no person shall be convicted of any such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, in so far as the same are expressed, uttered, or declared by open or advised speaking as aforesaid, except on his own confession in open Court or unless the words so spoken are proved by two credible witnesses.
5. In an indictment for any felony under this Ordinance, it shall be lawful to charge against the offender any number of the matters, acts, or deeds by which such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, or any of them, have been expressed, uttered, or declared.
6. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall lessen the force of or in any manner affect anything enacted by the statute passed in the twenty-fifth year of King Edward the Third, entitled "A Decla- ration which Offences shall be adjudged Treason."
7. If the facts or matters alleged in an indictment for any felony under this Ordinance amount in law to treason, such indictment shall not, by reason thereof, be deemed void, erroneous, or defective; and if the facts or matters proved at the trial of any person charged with any felony under this Ordinance amount in law to treason, such person shall not, by reason thereof, be entitled to be acquitted of such felony; but no person tried for such felony shall be afterwards prosecnied for trea- son upon the same facts.
8.(1.) In the case of every felony punishable under this Ordinance, every principal in the second degree and every accessory before the fact shall be punishable in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Ordinance punishable.
(2.) Every accessory after the fact to any such felony shall, on con- viction, be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement,
ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1869.
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