Section 324 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Motion in arrest of judgment

If no motion in arrest of judgment is made, or if the court decides against the accused person upon a motion, the court may sentence the accused person at any time during the session.

The court before which a person is tried for an offence may reserve the giving of its final decision on questions raised at the trial, and its decision whenever given shall be considered as given at...

(1) When a person has, in a trial before the High Court, been convicted of anoffence, the judge may reserve and refer for the decision of a court consisting of two or more judges of the High Court any...

No judgment shall be stayed or reversed on the ground of an objection which, if stated after the information was read over to the accused person, or during the progress of the trial, might have been...

The court may, before passing sentence, receive such evidence as it thinks fit in order to inform itself as to the proper sentence to be passed.

In this Part— “family victim”, in relation to an offence as a direct result of which a primary victim has died, means a person who was, at the time the offence was committed, a member of the primary...

This Part applies in relation to an offence that is being dealt with by any court, where the offence results in the death of, or actual physical bodily harm to, any person.

(1) If it considers it appropriate to do so, a court may receive and consider a victim impact statement at any time after it convicts, but before it sentences, an offender. (2) If the primary victim...

(1) The giving of a victim impact statement is not mandatory. (2) A victim impact statement shall not be received or considered by a court if the victim or any of the victims to whom the statement...

(1) A victim impact statement shall be in writing and shall comply with suchother requirements as are prescribed by rules of court. (2) If a primary victim is incapable of providing information for...

The Chief Justice may make any rules of court necessary or expedient to be made for carrying this Part into effect.

When an accused person is sentenced to death, the court shall inform him of the time within which, if he wishes to appeal, his appeal should be preferred.

A certificate under the hand of the Registrar or other officer of the court that sentence of death has been passed, and naming the person condemned, shall be sufficient authority for the detention of...

(1) As soon as conveniently may be after sentence of death has been pronounced, if no appeal from the sentence is confirmed, then as soon as conveniently may be after confirmation, the presiding judge...

(1) A warrant under the hand of the judge or magistrate by whom a person issentenced to imprisonment, ordering that the sentence shall be carried out in any prison within Kenya, shall be issued by the...

(1) When a court orders money to be paid by an accused person or by aprosecutor or complainant for fine, penalty, compensation, costs, expenses or otherwise, the money may be levied on the movable and...

(1) Any person claiming to be entitled to or to have a legal or equitable interest in the whole or part of property attached in execution of a warrant issued under section 334 may, at any time prior...

(1) When a convicted person has been sentenced to a fine only and to imprisonment in default of payment of a fine, and whether or not a warrant of distress has been issued under section 334, the court...

If the officer having the execution of a warrant of distress reports that he could find no property or not sufficient property whereon to levy the money mentioned in the warrant with expenses, the...

When it appears to the court that distress and sale of property would be ruinous to the person ordered to pay the money or his family, or (by his confession or otherwise) that he has no property...

A person committed for non-payment may pay the sum mentioned in the warrant, with the amount of expenses therein authorized (if any), to the person in whose custody he is, and that person shall...

(1) If a person who is confined in prison for non-payment of a sum adjudgedby a court in its criminal jurisdiction to be paid under this Code or under any other Act pays a sum in part satisfaction of...

A warrant for the execution of a sentence may be issued either by the judge or magistrate who passed the sentence or by his successor in office.

No commitment for non-payment shall be for a longer period than six months, unless the law under which the conviction has taken place enjoins or allows a longer period.

(1) When a person, having been convicted of an offence punishable withimprisonment for a term of three years or more is again convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a similar term or...

(1) A court may at any time direct that a person shall, whilst subject to police supervision under section 343 and at large in Kenya, comply with all or any of the following requirements, and may vary...

(1) A person who is convicted of an offence under section 296(1), 297(1), 308 or 322 of the Penal Code the Prevention of Terrorism Act or the Sexual Offences Act shall be subject to police supervision...

(1) A person subject to police supervision who fails to comply with a requirementplaced upon him or her by or by virtue of section 344 or 344A commits an offence and is liable, upon conviction, to...

The court may at any time amend a defect in substance or in form in an order or warrant, and no omission or error as to the time and place, and no defect in form in an order or warrant given under...

(1) Save as is in this Part provided— (a) a person convicted on a trial held by a subordinate court of the first or second class may appeal to the High Court; and (b) Repealed by Act No. 5 of 2003,...

No appeal shall be allowed in the case of an accused person who has pleaded guilty and has been convicted on that plea by a subordinate court, except as to the extent or legality of the sentence.

(1) When an accused person has been acquitted on a trial held by a subordinate court or High Court, or where an order refusing to admit a complaint or formal charge, or an order dismissing a charge,...

An appeal shall be entered within fourteen days of the date of the order or sentence appealed against: Provided that the court to which the appeal is made may for good cause admit an appeal after the...

(1) An appeal shall be made in the form of a petition in writing presented by the appellant or his advocate, and every petition shall (unless the High Court otherwise directs) be accompanied by a copy...

If the appellant is in prison, he may present his petition of appeal and the copies accompanying it to the officer in charge of the prison, who shall thereupon forward the petition and copies to the...

(1) When the High Court has received the petition and copy under section 350, a judge shall peruse them, and, if he considers that there is no sufficient ground for interfering, may, notwithstanding...

Where an appeal against conviction has been lodged and a judge of the High Court is satisfied that the conviction cannot be supported, and the Director of Public Prosecutions has informed the court in...

If the High Court does not dismiss the appeal summarily, it shall cause notice to be given to the appellant or his advocate, and to the respondent or his advocate, of the time and place at which the...

(1) At the hearing of the appeal the appellant or his advocate may address the court in support of the particulars set out in the petition of appeal and the respondent or his advocate may then address...

(1) When a case is decided on appeal by the High Court, it shall certify itsjudgment or order to the court by which the conviction, sentence or order appealed against was recorded or passed. (2) The...

(1) The High Court, or the subordinate court which has convicted or sentenceda person, may grant bail or may stay execution on a sentence or order pending the entering of an appeal, on such terms as...

(1) After the entering of an appeal by a person entitled to appeal, the High Court, or the subordinate court which convicted or sentenced that person, may order that he be released on bail with or...

(1) In dealing with an appeal from a subordinate court, the High Court, if it thinks additional evidence is necessary, shall record its reasons, and may either take such evidence itself or direct it...

(1) Appeals from subordinate courts shall be heard by one judge of the HighCourt, except when in any particular case the Chief Justice, or a judge to whom the Chief Justice has given authority in...

Every appeal from a subordinate court (except an appeal from a sentence of a fine) shall finally abate on the death of the appellant.

(1) A party to an appeal from a subordinate court may, subject to subsection (8), appeal against a decision of the High Court in its appellate jurisdiction on a matter of law, and the Court of Appeal...

The High Court may call for and examine the record of any criminal proceedings before any subordinate court for the purpose of satisfying itself as to the correctness, legality or propriety of any...

(1) A subordinate court of the first class may call for and examine the recordof any criminal proceedings of a subordinate court of a lower class than it and established within its local limits of...

(1) In the case of a proceeding in a subordinate court the record of which has been called for or which has been reported for orders, or which otherwise comes to its knowledge, the High Court...

No party has a right to be heard either personally or by an advocate before the High Court when exercising its powers of revision: Provided that the court may, when exercising those powers, hear any...