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Grievous harm
Any person who unlawfully does grievous harm to another is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
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Intentionally endangering safety of persons travelling by railway
Any person who, with intent to injure or to endanger the safety of any person travelling by any railway, whether a particular pers…
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Preventing escape from wreck
Any person who unlawfully— (a) prevents or obstructs any person who is on board of, or is escaping from, a vessel which is in dist…
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Acts intended to cause grievous harm or to prevent arrest
Any person who, with intent to maim, disfigure or disable any person, or to do some grievous harm to any person, or to resist or p…
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Stupefying in order to commit felony or misdemeanour
Any person who, with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of a felony or misdemeanour, or to facilitate the flight of…
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Disabling in order to commit felony or misdemeanour
Any person who, by any means calculated to choke, suffocate or strangle, and with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission…
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Killing unborn child
Any person who, when a woman is about to be delivered of a child, prevents the child from being born alive by any act or omission…
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Concealing birth
Any person who, when a woman is delivered of a child, endeavours by any secret disposition of the dead body of the child to concea…
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Attempting suicide
Any person who attempts to kill himself is guilty of a misdemeanour.
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Aiding suicide
Any person who— (a) procures another to kill himself; or (b) counsels another to kill himself and thereby induces him to do so; or…
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Conspiracy to murder
Any person who conspires with any other person to kill any person, whether that person is in Kenya or elsewhere, is guilty of a fe…
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Threats to kill
(1) Any person who without lawful excuse utters, or directly or indirectly causes any person to receive, a threat, whether in writ…
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Accessory after the fact to murder
Any person who becomes an accessory after the fact to murder is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
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Attempt to murder by convict
Any person who, being under a sentence of imprisonment for three years or more, attempts to commit murder is liable to imprisonmen…
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Attempt to murder
Any person who— (a) attempts unlawfully to cause the death of another; or (b) with intent unlawfully to cause the death of another…
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Duty of persons in charge of dangerous things
It is the duty of every person who has in his charge or under his control anything, whether living or inanimate, and whether movin…
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Duty of persons doing dangerous acts
It is the duty of every person who, except in a case of necessity, undertakes to administer surgical or medical treatment to any o…
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Duty of masters
It is the duty of every person who as master or mistress has contracted to provide necessary food, clothing or lodging for any ser…
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Responsibility of person who has charge of another
It is the duty of every person having charge of another who is unable by reason of age, sickness, unsoundness of mind, detention o…
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Limitation as to time of death
(1) A person is not deemed to have killed another if the death of that person does not take place within a year and a day of the c…
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When child deemed to be a person
A child becomes a person capable of being killed when it has completely proceeded in a living state from the body of its mother, w…
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Causing death defined
A person is deemed to have caused the death of another person although his act is not the immediate or the sole cause of death in…
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Procedure where woman convicted of capital offence alleges she is pregnant
(1) Where a woman convicted of an offence punishable with death alleges that she is pregnant, or where the court before whom she i…
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Sentence of death not to be passed on pregnant woman
Where a woman convicted of an offence punishable with death is found in accordance with the provisions of section 212 to be pregna…
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