CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
No. 9 of 1899.
917
fore whom the oath, affirmation, declaration, affidavit, deposition, petition, answer, notice, certificate, or other writing was taken, made, signed, or subscribed, without setting forth the petition, answer, information, indictment, declaration, or any part of any proceeding, and without setting forth the commission or authority of the Court or person before which or whom such offence was committed.
[14 & 15 Vict. c. 100 s. 21.]
24. In any indictment for subornation of perjury, or for corrupt bargaining or contracting with any person to commit wilful and corrupt perjury, or for inciting, causing, or procuring any person unlawfully, wilfully, falsely, fraudulently, deceitfully, maliciously, or corruptly to take, make, sign, or subscribe any oath, affirmation, declaration, affidavit, deposition, petition, answer, notice, certificate, or other writing, it shall be sufficient, wherever such perjury or other offence aforesaid has been actually committed, to allege the offence of the person who actually committed such perjury or other offence in the manner hereinbefore mentioned, and then to allege that the accused person unlawfully, wilfully, and corruptly did cause and procure the said person to commit the said offence, in manner and form aforesaid; and wherever such perjury or other offence aforesaid has not been actually committed, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence with which the accused person is charged without setting forth or averring any of the matters or things hereinbefore rendered unnecessary to be set forth or averred in the case of wilful and corrupt perjury.
25. In any count charging the accused person with having been previously convicted, it shall be sufficient to state that the accused person was, at a certain time and place, convicted of an offence punishable on summary conviction or of a felony or misdemeanor, as the case may be, without further describing the offence.
26. No indictment shall be held insufficient for want of the averment of any matter unnecessary to be proved, or for that any person mentioned in the indictment is designated by a name of office or other descriptive appellation instead of his proper name, or for omitting to state the time at which the offence was committed in any case where time is not of the essence of the offence, or for stating the time imperfectly, or for stating the offence to have been committed on a day subsequent to that of the indictment, or on an impossible day, or on a day that never happened, or for want of any
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
No. 9 of 1899.
917
fore whom the oath, affirmation, declaration, affidavit, deposition, petition, answer, notice, certificate, or other writing was taken, made, signed, or subscribed, without setting forth the petition, answer, information, indictment, declaration, or any part of any proceeding, and without setting forth the commission or authority of the Court or person before which or whom such offence was committed.
tion of
[14 & 15 Viet.
c. 100 s. 21.]
24. In any indictment for subornation of perjury, or for corrupt Indictment bargaining or contracting with any person to commit wilful and for suborna- corrupt perjury, or for inciting, causing, or procuring any person perjury. unlawfully, wilfully, falsely, fraudulently, deceitfully, maliciously, or corruptly to take, make, sign, or subscribe any oath, affirmation, declaration, affidavit, deposition, petition, answer, notice, certifi- cate, or other writing, it shall be sufficient, wherever such perjury or other offence aforesaid has been actually committed, to allege the offence of the person who actually committed such perjury or other offence in the manner hereinbefore mentioned, and then to allege that the accused person unlawfully, wilfully, and corruptly did cause and procure the said person to commit the said offence, in manner and form aforesaid; and wherever such perjury or other offence aforesaid has not been actually committed, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence with which the accused person is charged without setting forth or averring any of the matters or things hereinbefore rendered unnecessary to be set forth or averred in the case of wilful and corrupt perjury.
conviction.
25. In any count charging the accused person with having been Charge of previously convicted, it shall be sufficient to state that the accused previous person was, at a certain time and place, convicted of an offence punishable on summary conviction or of a felony or misdemeanor, as the case may be, without further describing the offence.
not necessary to be alleged,
etc.
26. No indictment shall be held insufficient for want of the aver- General ment of any matter unnecessary to be proved, or for that any person to matters
provision as
mentioned in the indictment is designated by a name of office or other descriptive appellation instead of his proper name, or for omitting to state the time at which the offence was committed in any case where time is not of the essence of the offence, or for stating the time imperfectly, or for stating the offence to have been committed on a day subsequent to that of the indictment, or on an impossible day, or on a day that never happened, or for want of any
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