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No. 17 of 1919.
INDICTMENTS.
[Schedule contd.] Description of persons. Description of document. General rule tion.
4. The description or designation in an indictment of the accused person, or of any other person to whom reference is made therein, shall be such as is reasonably sufficient to identify him, without necessarily stating his correct name or his abode, style, degree or occupation; and if, owing to the name of the person not being known or for any other reason, it is impracticable to give such a description or designation, such description or designation shall be given as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances, or such person may be described as a person unknown".
5. Where it is necessary to refer to any document or instrument in an indictment it shall be sufficient to describe it by any name or designation by which it is usually known or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy thereof.
6. Subject to any other provisions of these rules, it shall be as to description sufficient to describe any place, time, thing, matter, act or omission whatsoever to which it is necessary to refer in any indictment, in ordinary language in such a manner as to indicate with reasonable clearness the place, time, thing, matter, act or omission referred to.
Statement of intent. Interpreta-tion. Ordinance No. 31 of 1911. Short title.
7. It shall not be necessary in stating any intent to defraud, deceive or injure to state an intent to defraud, deceive or injure any particular person, where the statute creating the offence does not make an intent to defraud, deceive or injure a particular person an essential ingredient of the offence.
8. The Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, applies for the interpretation of these rules as it applies for the interpretation of an Ordinance.
9. These rules may be cited as the Indictment Rules, 1919, and these rules, together with any rules made under section 2 of the Indictments Ordinance, 1919, may be cited together by such collective title as may be prescribed by the last-mentioned rules.
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APPENDIX.
FORMS OF INDICTMENT.
1.
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE.
PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE.
day of 19 at " Murder. A.B., on the in this Colony, murdered J.S. [rule 1 (5).]
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1466
No. 17 of 1919.
INDICTMENTS.
[Schedule contd.] Description
of persons.
Description
of document.
General rule
tion.
4. The description or designation in an indictment of the. accused person, or of any other person to whom reference is made therein, shall be such as is reasonably sufficient to identify him, without necessarily stating his correct name or his abode, style, degree or occupation; and if, owing to the name of the person not being known or for any other reason, it is impracticable to give such a description or designation, such description or designation shall be given as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances, or such person may be described as a person unknown".
5. Where it is necessary to refer to any document or instrument in an indictment it shall be sufficient to describe it by any name or designation by which it is usually known or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy thereof.
6. Subject to any other provisions of these rules, it shall be as to descrip sufficient to describe any place, time, thing, matter, act or omission whatsoever to which it is necessary to refer in any indictment, in ordinary language in such a manner as to indicate with reasonable clearness the place, time, thing, matter, act or omission referred to.
Statement of intent.
Interpreta- tion. Ordinance
No. 31 of 1911.
Short title.
7. It shall not be necessary in stating any intent to defraud, deceive or injure to state an intent to defraud, deceive or injure any particular person, where the statute creating the offence does not make an intent to defraud, deceive or injure a particular person an essential ingredient of the offence.
8. The Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, applies for the inter- pretation of these rules as it applies for the interpretation of an Ordinance.
9. These rules may be cited as the Indictment Rules, 1919, and these rules, together with any rules made under section 2 of the Indictments Ordinance, 1919, may be cited together by such collective title as may be prescribed by the last-mentioned rules.
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APPENDIX.
FORMS OF INDICTMENT.
1.
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE.
PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE.
day of
19
at
"
Murder.
A.B., on the
in this Colony, murdered J.S.
[rule 1 (5).]
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