Section 100 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Warrant after issue of summons

If the accused does not appear at the time and place appointed in and by the summons, and his personal attendance has not been dispensed with under section 99, the court may issue a warrant to...

(1) Every warrant of arrest shall be under the hand of the judge or magistrateissuing it and shall bear the seal of the court. (2) Every warrant shall state shortly the offence with which the person...

(1) A court issuing a warrant for the arrest of a person in respect of an offenceother than murder, treason or rape may direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if the person executes a bond with...

(1) A warrant of arrest may be directed to one or more police officers, or to onepolice officer and to all other police officers of the area within which the court has jurisdiction, or generally to...

(1) A magistrate empowered to hold a subordinate court of the first class maydirect a warrant to a landholder, farmer or manager of land within the local limits of his jurisdiction for the arrest of...

A warrant directed to a police officer may also be executed by another police officer whose name is endorsed upon the warrant by the officer to whom it is directed or endorsed.

The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall notify the substance thereof to the person to be arrested, and, if so required, shall show him the warrant.

The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall (subject to the provisions of section 103 as to security) without unnecessary delay bring the person arrested before the court...

A warrant of arrest may be executed at any place in Kenya.

(1) When a warrant of arrest is to be executed outside the local limits of thejurisdiction of the court issuing it, the court may, instead of directing the warrant to a police officer, forward it by...

(1) When a warrant of arrest directed to a police officer is to be executedoutside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court issuing it, he shall take it for endorsement to a magistrate within...

(1) When a warrant of arrest is executed outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court by which it was issued, the person arrested shall, unless the court which issued the warrant is...

An irregularity or defect in the substance or form of a warrant, and any variance between it and the written complaint or information, or between either and the evidence produced on the part of the...

Where a person for whose appearance or arrest the officer presiding in a court is empowered to issue a summons or warrant is present in court, the officer may require the person to execute a bond,...

When a person who is bound by a bond taken under this Code to appear before a court does not so appear, the officer presiding may issue a warrant directing that the person be arrested and produced...

(1) Where a person for whose appearance or arrest a court is empoweredto issue a summons or warrant is confined in prison within the local limits of the jurisdiction of that court, the court may issue...

The provisions of this Part relating to a summons and warrant, and their issue, service and execution, shall, so far as may be, apply to every summons and every warrant of arrest issued under this...

Where it is proved on oath to a court or a magistrate that anything upon, with or in respect of which an offence has been committed, or anything which is necessary for the conduct of an investigation...

An application for a search warrant under section 118 shall be made ex-parte to a magistrate.

A search warrant may be issued on any day (including Sunday), and may be executed on any day (including Sunday) between the hours of sunrise and sunset, but the court may, by the warrant, authorize...

(1) Whenever a building or other place liable to search is closed, a personresiding in or being in charge of the building or place shall, on demand of the police officer or other person executing the...

(1) When anything is so seized and brought before a court, it may be detaineduntil the conclusion of the case or the investigation, reasonable care being taken for its preservation. (2) If an appeal...

The provisions of subsections (1) and (3) of section 102, and sections 104, 106, 109, 110 and 111, shall, so far as may be, apply to search warrants issued under section 118.

(1) When a person, other than a person accused of murder, treason, robberywith violence, attempted robbery with violence and any drug related offence is arrested or detained without warrant by an...

(1) Subject to Article 49(1)(h) of the Constitution and notwithstanding section 123, in making a decision on bail and bond, the Court shall have regard to all the relevant circumstances and in...

Before a person is released on bail or on his own recognizance, a bond for such sum as the court or police officer thinks sufficient shall be executed by that person, and, when he is released on bail,...

(1) As soon as the bond has been executed, the person for whose appearance it has been executed shall be released, and when he is in prison the court admitting him to bail shall issue an order of...

When a person may be required by a court or officer to execute a bond, with or without sureties, the court or officer may, except in the case of a bond for good behaviour, require him to deposit a sum...

If, through mistake, fraud or otherwise, insufficient sureties have been accepted, or if they afterwards become insufficient, the court may issue a warrant of arrest directing that the person released...

(1) All or any of the sureties for the appearance and attendance of a personreleased on bail may at any time apply to a magistrate to discharge the bond either wholly or so far as it relates to the...

Where a surety to a bond dies before the bond is forfeited, his estate shall be discharged from all liability in respect of the bond, but the party who gave the bond may be required to find a new...

If it is made to appear to a court, by information on oath, that a person bound by recognizance is about to leave Kenya, the court may cause him to be arrested and may commit him to prison until the...

(1) Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of a court by which a recognizance under this Code has been taken, or, when the recognizance is for appearance before a court, to the satisfaction of that...

All orders passed under section 131 by a magistrate shall be appealable to and may be revised by the High Court.

The High Court may direct a magistrate to levy the amount due on recognizance to appear and attend at the High Court.

Every charge or information shall contain, and shall be sufficient if it contains, a statement of the specific offence or offences with which the accused person is charged, together with such...

(1) Any offences, whether felonies or misdemeanours, may be chargedtogether in the same charge or information if the offences charged are founded on the same facts, or form or are part of a series of...

The following persons may be joined in one charge or information and may be tried together— (a) persons accused of the same offence committed in the course of the same transaction; (b) persons...

The following provisions shall apply to all charges and informations, and, notwithstanding any rule of law or practice, a charge or information shall, subject to this Code, not be open to objection in...

(1) Subject to section 137B, a prosecutor and an accused person or his representative may negotiate and enter into an agreement in respect of— (a) reduction of a charge to a lesser included...

A plea agreement on behalf of the Republic shall be entered into by the Director of Public Prosecutions or officers authorized by the Director of Public Prosecutions in accordance with article 157(9)...

(1) An offer for a plea agreement may be initiated by— (a) a prosecutor; or (b) an accused person or his legal representative. (2) The court shall be notified by the parties referred to in...

A prosecutor shall only enter into a plea agreement in accordance with section 137A— (a) after consultation with the police officer investigating the case; (b) with due regard to the nature of and...

A plea agreement shall be in writing, and shall— (a) be reviewed and accepted by the accused person, or explained to the accused person in a language that he understands; (b) if the accused person...

(2) Before the court records a plea agreement, the accused person shall be placed under oath and the court shall address the accused person personally in court, and shall inform the accused person of,...

The court shall, before recording a plea agreement, satisfy itself that at the time the agreement was entered into, the accused person was competent, of sound mind and acted voluntarily.

(1) Where the court accepts a plea agreement— (a) it shall enter the factual basis of the plea on record; (b) the agreement shall become binding upon the prosecutor and the accused; (c) the...

(1) Upon conviction, the court may invite the parties to address it on the issueof sentencing in accordance with section 216. (2) In passing a sentence, the court shall take into account— (a) the...

(1) Where the court rejects a plea agreement— (a) it shall record the reasons for such rejection and inform the parties accordingly; (b) the plea agreement shall become null and void and no party...

An accused person may withdraw a plea of guilty pursuant to a plea agreement — (a) prior to acceptance of the plea by the court, for any reason; or (b) after the court accepts and convicts on the...