Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Payment in full after commitment
A person committed for non-payment may pay the sum mentioned in the warrant, with the amount of expenses therein authorized (if an…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Commitment in lieu of distress
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 fam…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Commitment for want of distress
If the officer having the execution of a warrant of distress reports that he could find no property or not sufficient property whe…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Suspension of execution of sentence of imprisonment in default of fine
(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…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Objections to attachment
(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 ex…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Warrant for levy of fine, etc.
(1) When a court orders money to be paid by an accused person or by aprosecutor or complainant for fine, penalty, compensation, co…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Warrant in case of sentence of imprisonment
(1) A warrant under the hand of the judge or magistrate by whom a person issentenced to imprisonment, ordering that the sentence s…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Record and report to be sent to President
(1) As soon as conveniently may be after sentence of death has been pronounced, if no appeal from the sentence is confirmed, then…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Authority for detention
A certificate under the hand of the Registrar or other officer of the court that sentence of death has been passed, and naming the…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Accused to be informed of right to appeal
When an accused person is sentenced to death, the court shall inform him of the time within which, if he wishes to appeal, his app…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Rules of court
The Chief Justice may make any rules of court necessary or expedient to be made for carrying this Part into effect.
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Formal requirements for victim impact statements
(1) A victim impact statement shall be in writing and shall comply with suchother requirements as are prescribed by rules of court…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Victim impact statements discretionary
(1) The giving of a victim impact statement is not mandatory. (2) A victim impact statement shall not be received or considered by…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
When victim impact statements may be received and considered
(1) If it considers it appropriate to do so, a court may receive and consider a victim impact statement at any time after it convi…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Application of Part
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 a…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Interpretation
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…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Evidence for arriving at a proper sentence
The court may, before passing sentence, receive such evidence as it thinks fit in order to inform itself as to the proper sentence…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Objections cured by verdict
No judgment shall be stayed or reversed on the ground of an objection which, if stated after the information was read over to the…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Power to reserve questions arising in the course of the trial
(1) When a person has, in a trial before the High Court, been convicted of anoffence, the judge may reserve and refer for the deci…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Power to reserve decision on question raised at trial
The court before which a person is tried for an offence may reserve the giving of its final decision on questions raised at the tr…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Sentence
If no motion in arrest of judgment is made, or if the court decides against the accused person upon a motion, the court may senten…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Motion in arrest of judgment
(1) The accused person may, at any time before sentence, whether on his pleaof guilty or otherwise, move in arrest of judgment on…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Calling upon the accused
If the judge convicts the accused person, or if the accused person pleads guilty, the Registrar or other officer of the court shal…
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Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75▤
Delivery of judgment
(1) When the case on both sides is closed, the judge shall then give judgment. (2) If the accused person is convicted, the judge s…
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