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Section 214: Words in charge taken in sense of law under which offence is punishable

In every charge words used in describing an offence shall be deemed to have been used in the sense attached to them respectively by...
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Section 215: Effect of errors

No error in stating either the offence or the particulars required to be stated in the charge, and no omission to state the offence...
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Section 216: Court may alter charge

(1) Any Court may alter or add to any charge at any time before judgment is pronounced. (2) Every such alteration or addition shall be...
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Section 217: Recall of witnesses when charge altered

Whenever a charge is altered or added to by the Court after the commencement of the trial, the prosecutor and the accused shall be...
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Section 218: Separate charges for distinct offences

(1) For every distinct offence of which any person is accused there shall be a separate charge, and every such charge shall be tried...
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Section 219: Three offences of same kind within year may be charged together

(1) When a person is accused of more offences than one of the same kind committed within the space of twelve months from the...
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Section 220: Trial for more than one offence

(1) If, in one series of acts so connected together as to form the same transaction, more offences than one are committed by the...
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Section 221: Where it is doubtful what offence has been committed

(1) If a single act or series of acts is of such a nature that it is doubtful which of several offences the facts...
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Section 222: When offence proved included in offence charged

(1) When a person is charged with an offence consisting of several particulars, a combination of some only of which constitutes a complete minor...
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Section 223: What persons may be charged jointly

The following persons may be charged and tried together, namely:— (a) persons accused of the same offence committed in the course of the same transaction; (b)...
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