OFFENCES AGAINST OTHER LAWS. CHAPTER XXIII.-OF ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT OFFENCES. 511 Attempting to commit offences punishable with transportation or imprisonment and in such attempt doing any act towards the commission of the offence. According as the According offence is one in the offence is respect of which the Police may arrest without warrant or not. the offence as Transportation or imprisonment By the Court not exceeding half of the by which longest term and of the description provided for offence, or fine, or both. as According the offence contemplated by the offender is bailable or one in respect of which a summons or warrant shall ordinarily not. issue. OFFENCES AGAINST OTHER LAWS. If punishable with death, transportation, May arrest without Warrant. or imprisonment for 7 years or upwards. Not bailable. warrant. If punishable with imprisonment for 3 ditto years and upwards, but less than 7. ditto ditto If punishable with fine only. If punishable with imprisonment for less Shall not arrest Summons. than 3 years. Bailable. without warrant. ditto ditto ditto xlix INDEX. PAGE. ABDUCTION definition of the term, XVI. 362, simple, how punishable, XVI. 363, 278 ib. in order that the person abducted may be murdered, may be wrongfully confined, XVI. 365, 279 ib. of woman, in order to seduce her or make her marry, ib. of a person, to subject him to grievous hurt, &c., XVI. 367, 280 ib. ib. of a child, to take property from it, XVI. 369, See-Forced Labor. Kidnapping Slave. ABETMENT in what it consists, V. 107 and 108 and Explans. by illegal omission.. wilful concealment includes offences against special and local laws, but not against law of England.. to constitute, it is not necessary that the act abetted or that the person abetted should be capable by of abetment is an offence, ib. Explan. 4, does not require concert between abettor and person committing the act, ib. Explan. 5, punishment for, where the act abetted is committed in consequence, V. 109, and Explan. if the person abetted has a different inten- when one act is abetted and another is done, when abettor is liable to punishment for both the act abetted and the act done, V. 112, .. when the abettor is present when the act is if offence abetted is punishable with death 85.86 85.95 ib. 88 86 87.94 87 88 ib. 89 ib. 90 ib. 91 ib. PAGE. ABETMENT-continued. if offence abetted is punishable with im- and if abettor or person abetted is a punishment for offence by the public generally, or by of mutiny, VII. 131, where the mutiny is in consequence com- of assault by soldier, &c., on superior officer, VII. 133, 134, of act of insubordination, VII. 138, .. .. in India, of the counterfeiting out of India of Queen's of suicide, XVI. 305, 306 Public Servant. Suicide. what amounts to See-Concealment. ABETTORS where punishable ABSCONDING to avoid service of summons or order, X 172, ACCESSARY.. ACCIDENT act done by, when it is no offence, IV. 80, ACCOMPLICE evidence of ACCOUNT stated is a valuable security.. 22 22 ACQUITTAL is no bar to subsequent proceedings where charge set out 414 or Court had no jurisdiction.. 415 or proceedings terminated before sentence or where evidence on second indictment could not have procured a conviction on the first.. refusal by Magistrate to commit is not an ib. 402. 414 prisoner may demand an, if prosecution abandoned 416 ib. sentence of, conclusive till reversed may be set aside by High Court as Court of revision ACT PAGE. what the word denotes, II. 33, when it includes illegal omissions, II. 32, offence caused partly by, and partly by omission, II. 36, 35, 37, 38, ACT XXIII of 1861, ss. 16, 18, .. 22 ib. 24 22.24 159 connivance of husband negatives charge of whether several indictments maintainable for continued 374 375 ADULTERY |