Having, heard the evidence do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge (or charges)? 3. When a person is charged with murder he may, if the evidence so warrants, be acquitted of murder and convicted of manslaughter although he was not charged with that offence. or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the said fine/sum/penalty returning this warrant with an endorsement certifying what you have done under it, immediately upon its execution. The Sheriff shall in each case cause the duplicate of every certificate and declaration required by this Act to be exhibited, as soon as may be, and kept exhibited for twenty-four hours at least, on or near the principal entrance of the Prison or some other public building or place situate within the district wherein judgment of death is executed. Teachers in public and private schools; xi. making known your authority and demanding admission. Proceedings in a Preliminary Investigation when Case for the Prosecution is closed. Arrest how made. (3)Such constable as aforesaid shall enter in a book, kept for that purpose in every police station in the Western Area and lock-up in the Provinces, the name, residence and occupation of the person entering into recognisance, and of his surety or sureties, if any, with the condition of the recognisance, and the sums deposited or acknowledged. 122. El presente artculo atiende a un anlisis de la intervencin humanitaria/militar que Chile realiza en Hait desde 2004. 4, pp. persons, and to produce him before the said Court then and there to be tried. 0000013445 00000 n (5)A search warrant shall ordinarily be executed between the hours of five o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock at night, but the Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace issuing the same may by an order endorsed thereon, give authority for its execution at any other time. (7) Subject to any other provisions of these rules, it shall be sufficient describe any place, thing, matter, act or omission whatsoever to which it is necessary to refer in any information or indictment on ordinary language in such a manner as to indicate with reasonable clearness the place, time, thing, matter, act omission referred to. 34. 46. (2)A licence may be in such form and may contain such conditions as the Governor-General may direct. (1) The Criminal Procedure Act, the Jurors and Assessors Act, subsection (3) of section 3 of the Treason and State Offences Act, 1963, section 27 of the Police Act, 1964 and section 23 of the House of Representatives Powers and Privileges Act are hereby repealed. (2) No accuse person shall be entitled to any adjournment to secure the attendance of any witness unless he shows that he could not by reasonable diligence have taken earlier steps to obtain the presence of the witness. In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires- (3) Disqualification of jurors. (3)If the accused person is found guilty, the Judge shall pass sentence on him accordance to law. Competency of person charged and husband or wife of person charged to give evidence. (Public Seal) Governor. acquit it shall be sufficient for any person to state that he has been lawfully convicted or acquitted (acquitted as the case may be) of the said offence charged in the indictment. The Parliament of Sierra Leone on July 23, 2020 unanimously approved the Independent Media Commission (IMC) Act 2020 and repealed the 1965 Public Order Act (POA) that criminalized libel and sedition in what has been hailed as a historic moment for the media in the country. 0000001892 00000 n I,.(Judge of the Supreme Court or other designation) hereby certify that the, condition of the recognisance entered into by..and set out on the obverse hereof has not been, You are hereby directed to cause to be served upon the said..the order and notice required b. section 129 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1965: And you are further directed that if the said sum shall not have been paid to you within six days of the service of such order and notice, you shall proceed to recover the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the, saidand in default of the amount being so recovered you shall lodge the said, ..in the prison at.there to be kept safely for a period. 245. (6)where an information or indictment contains more than one count, the counts shall be numbered consecutively. Passed in the House of Representatives this 5th day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five. 209. that an accused person committed to the Supreme Court for trial instead of being tried at the place where he would but for the order have been tried, be tried by the Supreme Court at such other place as may be specified in the order. period of years, or in such other prison as the Governor-General shall from time to time direct, and subject to the prison rules for the time being in force. It shall be lawful for the Court, upon the application of the prosecutor or the defence, if the Court considers that there is sufficient cause for the delay, to postpone the trial of any accused person to the next sessions of the Court to be held at the place where the Court is sitting at the time of such application being made, or to subsequent sessions, or to a sessions to be held at a time and place to be named at the time of granting such postponement; and to respite the recognisances of the prosecutor and witnesses, in which case the respited recognisances shall have the same force and effect as fresh recognisances to prosecute and give evidence at such subsequent sessions would have had. 140. The Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff shall, as soon as may be after having received a copy of the indictment and notice of trial, and three days at least before the day specified therein for trial, or within such lesser time as the Court may for good cause order, by himself or other person authorized by him, deliver to the party charged the said copy and notice and explain to him the nature and exigency thereof, and when the said party is not in custody or shall have been admitted to bail and cannot readily be found, he shall leave a copy of the said indictment and notice of trial with some person of his household for him, at his dwelling house and if none such can be found, shall affix the said copy and notice to the outer or principal door of the dwelling house of the party charged: a.in any such case where an indictment is signed and filed without previous investigation and committal for trial, the accused shall be entitled to at least seven days notice as aforementioned; b.nothing herein contained shall prevent any person in custody or awaiting trial at the opening of or during any sessions, from being tried thereat, if he shall have been served with a copy of the indictment and notice of trial not less than three days or seven days, as the case may be, before the date on which he is to be tried; c.such last-mentioned period of three days or seven days may be reduced to a shorter period, if any such person shall express his assent thereto and no special objection be made on the part of the Crown. If a person refuses to enter into such recognizance the Court may commit him to prison, or into the custody of any officer of the Court, there to remain until after the trial, unless in the meantime he enter into a recognizance. At the Supreme Court holder at..on the.day. 188. QUALIFICATIONS OF JURORS AND PREPARATIONS OF JURORS' LIST. 0000035343 00000 n 80. 144 Sudanese Nationality Act 1994, as amended by Act No. 175. If the accused or the defendant adduces in his defence any evidence other than evidence as to character, the prosecutor may adduce evidence in reply thereto. 5 OF 2009) THE COMPANIES REGULATIONS, 2015 In exercise of the powers conferred upon the Commission by sections 494 and 530 of the Companies Act, 2009 the Commission hereby makes the following Regulations - PART I-PRELIMINARY 1. 0000007825 00000 n Persons charged with misdemeanour not to be acquitted if offence proved felony. 2198-2227 PDF of Act. 10 Local Courts Act 2011 Short title. 204. Ministers and Members of the House of Representatives; iii. Pursuant to the Courts Act, Act No 31 of 1965, Sierra Leone is constituted into Judicial Districts and Section 4 of the Act states that there shall be constituted Magistrate's Court in and for every judicial district. 29. No. Returns to be made to trial Court and Attorney-General. The Adoption Act of Sierra Leone - Volume 36 Issue 1. WHEREAS.(name of accused) did appear before the, ..(Magistrate or Judge) atto take his trial on attend a. preliminary investigation into a charge of..: And whereas the said..(Magistrate or Judge) has reason to believe that the, said(name of accused) is of unsound mind and is incapable of making his defence and has. 246. 148. Certain scientific reports to be evidence. 125. 238. 222. 187. 96. (Place). or exemption from or qualification to the operation of the enactment creating the offence. 75. 137. 200. (2) Where such evidence in rebuttal is given, counsel for the defence shall be entitled to comment on the evidence so given. (1) If the Court considers the evidence sufficient to put the accused on his trial, the Court shall by warrant commit him for trial upon indictment before the Supreme Court and shall, until the trial, either admit him to bail or send him to prison for safekeeping. 0000003918 00000 n 103. . The cancellation of a warrant may be effected by the Court issuing it, or by a Court to which such issuing Court is subordinate. 217. 214. 0000073714 00000 n c.the Court may make such order as to admitting the accused to bail, and as to the enlargement of recognisances and otherwise as the Court thinks fit. (4)The search warrant shall be executed by the constable or other person who shall have charge thereof; but he may be accompanied by any other persons necessary to assist him. WHEREAS.(name of offender), was on theday, of..sentenced to pay a fine of..or in default to suffer imprisonment for the period. DATED thisday of.19.. *If the accused states that he does not wish his witnesses examined by the Magistrate but desires them to be bound over to appear before the Supreme Court, this must be stated, but on no account should a Magistrate suggest or encourage this, but should record the evidence unless the accused does not wish it. 84. (1) Subject to the exemptions in subsection (2) every male person between the ages of thirty and sixty years who is resident in Sierra Leone and is literate in English shall be liable to serve. 247. The witness called for the prosecution shall be subject to cross-examination by or on behalf of the accused and to re-examination on behalf of the prosecution. (1) Where any person is convicted of having stolen or otherwise obtained any property dishonestly by means of any felony or misdemeanour, the Court convicting him may. b. in the case of a petition, after the expiration of forty-two days from the date of the decision of the Court of Appeal, and if, within the appropriate time allowed, any such notice is given or petition is made, the sentence shall not be executed until the appeal or petition is finally rejected or the application for leave to appeal is finally refused, as the case may be. Sealing orders, warrants, etc., not generally necessary. when an offence is a continuing one, and continues to be committed in more Districts than one; or. (4)The Court may presume that the signature to any such document is genuine, and that the person signing it held the office which he professed to hold or was recognized as an assayer or mineralogist at the time when he signed it. 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