Thereafter counsel for the prosecution may address the Court and counsel for the defence may reply and shall then call his witness (if any) as to the character of the accused. If such money be directed to be paid by instalments and default is made in the payment of any one instalment, all instalments then remaining unpaid shall become immediately due. (2) In the case of persons who are charged jointly, if one or more (but not all) have elected in accordance with section 144 to be tried by the Court with the aid of assessors, he or they may withdraw that election and elect to be tried by a Judge alone provided this change of election is made before the time allowed by section 145 has expired, otherwise the change of election shall have no effect. (ii) such person shall have elected or shall have been ordered to be tried by a Judge alone in accordance with the provisions of sections 145 and 144 respectively. 240. 29 of 1965). BINDING PROSECUTOR AND WITNESS BY RECOGNISANCE. (1) Any Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person in respect of any offence other than murder or treason may, in its discretion, direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if such person enter into a recognisance with sufficient sureties for his attendance before the Court at a specified time and thereafter until otherwise directed by the Court, the officer to whom the warrant is directed by the Court, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take such security and shall released such person from custody. 0000006381 00000 n Magistrate's Courts have limited jurisdiction. 229. 57. (2) The following persons shall be exempted from serving on any jury. The failure of any person charged with an offence, or of the wife or husband, as the case may be, of the person so charged, to give evidence shall not be made the subject of any comment by the prosecution. of: AND WHEREAS it has been reported to me that there are no sufficient goods and chattels of the, said..to satisfy the said sum and the expenses of such. 0000003948 00000 n (4)Any person who shall refuse to submit to the taking and recording of his photographs, measurements, thumbprints or fingerprints shall be taken before a Magistrate who, on being satisfied that such person has been prosecuted and charged before any court with an offence involving fraud, dishonesty or violence or is reasonably suspected of having made a thumbprint or fingerprint likely to become an exhibit in a criminal case, shall make such order as he thinks fit, authorising a constable to take the measurements, photographs, thumbprints and fingerprints of such person. 192. B., on the.day ofatin the Western Area of Sierra Leone, maliciously set fire to. (1) Subject to the provisions of rules made under section 50, charges for more than one felony or for more than one misdemeanour, and charges for both felonies and misdemeanours may, if those charges are founded on the same facts or form or are a part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character, be joined in the same complaint, information or indictment and tried at the same time, but where under the provisions of this section a felony is tried together with a misdemeanour in the Supreme Court, then if the trial is with a jury, the jury shall be sworn and the person accused shall have the same right of challenging jurors as if all the offences charged in the indictment were felonies. The Sheriff shall in each case cause the duplicate of every certificate and declaration required by this Act to be exhibited, as soon as may be, and kept exhibited for twenty-four hours at least, on or near the principal entrance of the Prison or some other public building or place situate within the district wherein judgment of death is executed. Diplomatic and consular representatives and all salaried functionaries of Commonwealth and foreign Governments; ix. a. return you this order to me endorsed with what you have done therein. 206. 238. Immediately after the accuses shall so have had opportunity of making his answer to the charge, the Court shall ask him whether he desires to give evidence on his own behalf and whether he desires to call any witnesses, and the evidence of the accused together with the depositions of such witnesses as the accused shall call, and who shall appear on his behalf, shall then be taken in like manner as in the case of the witnesses for the prosecution. (2) If it is made to appear to any Court, by information on oath, that any person bound by recognizance is about to go out of Sierra Leone, the Court may cause him to be arrested and may commit him to prison until the trial, unless the Court shall see fit to admit him to bail upon further recognizance. (1) In a trial on indictment for murder or manslaughter, the declaration of a deceased person, whether it be made in the presence of the accused person or not, may be given in evidence if the deceased person at the time of making such declaration believed himself in danger of imminent death and entertained at the time of making it no hopes of recovery. The Mayor of Freetown, Paramount Chiefs and Chairman of Town Councils and of other local authorities; viii. Section 4 of the Local Courts Act is hereby amended as follows. 145. With the offence. (2)The Principal Immigration Officer shall during the first week of August in each year furnish the Senior Police Magistrate in Freetown, with a list of names of all aliens known to him to be resident in the Western Area. E. M., on the..day of.At.in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, sold, uttered, and. (3) Order for enlargement of bail, cancellation of bail, transfer to a bond, etc. 245. 1 of 2006; Sierra Leone Citizenship Amendment Act No. A person so charged shall not be called as a witness in pursuance of this Act except upon his own. 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 213. 63. a Being an Act to establish the Sierra Leone Correction . (1) At the close of the evidence for the defence, or, where it is sought to rebut evidence of good character, after evidence of good character has been given, the Court may, in its discretion, grant the prosecutor leave to call rebutting evidence where something has arisen ex improviso, in the course of the defence. Procedure where entry not obtainable. 165. 173. (1) Whenever a Member of the House of Representatives or a public officer is, a.arrested or detained in custody upon the warrant or order of a Court; or. (5)A search warrant shall ordinarily be executed between the hours of five o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock at night, but the Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace issuing the same may by an order endorsed thereon, give authority for its execution at any other time. A. (2)The accused shall be entitled to cross-examine the witnesses for the prosecution and shall be information of such right if not represented by a legal practitioner. e.A person charged and being a witness in pursuance of this Act may be asked any question in cross-examination, notwithstanding that it would tend to criminate him as to the offence charged. the said Court sentenced to suffer death: AND WHEREAS it is in my judgment expedient that the Queen's mercy should, on the conditions hereinafter mentioned, be extended to the said. NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue and in exercise of the said powers in this behalf vested in me by the Constitution, I, do hereby in Her Majesty's name and on Her behalf grant unto the, said..Her Majesty's pardon for the offence whereof he stands so convicted as, aforesaid, on condition that the said..shall be kept imprisoned for the rest of his life/a. Subsection (1) of section 9 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the word "Local" immediately after the word "Group" in line three thereof. No. 2. No. B. to commit the said offence. The Sheriff, before the sitting of any Court whereat a jury shall be necessary, shall, on receiving from the Court a precept, issue summonses requiring the attendance thereat of the persons so drawn as aforesaid from the ballot box, and every such summons shall be personally served upon, or left at the usual or last known place of residence of the person so summoned, two clear days, or such other time as the Court may direct, before the day appointed for the sitting of the Court. 120. (1) Whenever any person prosecuted and charged before any Court with an offence involving fraud, dishonesty or violence, then, and in every such case, whether such offence is to be tried summarily or on information, or whether the said person has or has not been admitted to bail, it shall be lawful for a Police Officer of or above the rank of Assistant Superintendent or the constable for the time being in charge of a Police Station, if he is of the opinion that there are grounds for suspecting that such person has been previously convicted or has been engaged in crime, or that from any other case his photographs, measurements, thumbprints and fingerprints are required for the purposes of justice, to cause to be taken for use and record such photographs, measurements' thumbprints and fingerprints of the said person as such Police Officer or the constable for the time being in charge of a Police Station, shall think fit: Provided that if no conviction of the said person shall follow as a result of, or in connection with, such said prosecution, then, and in every such case, the photographs of the said person shall, together with the records of his measurements, thumbprints and fingerprints, be handed over to him or if this is not possible, be destroyed. 87. 116. 223. Private person may arrest without warrant. custody together with this warrant, and there to carry the aforesaid sentence into execution according to law. Where it appears to the Court that distress and sale of his goods and chattels would be ruinous to the person convicted and ordered to pay money for a fine or penalty and his family, or (by his confession or otherwise) that he has no goods whereon a distress may be levied, or other sufficient reason appears to the Court, the Court may, if it thinks fit, instead of or after issuing a warrant of distress commit him to prison for a period specified in the warrant, unless the money and all expenses of the commitment and conveyance to prison, to be specified in the warrant, are sooner paid. Re-opening of preliminary investigations. sessions but one after the sessions to which he was originally committed he shall on his application made on the last day of such first mentioned sessions be acquitted and discharged, unless the Court sees good reason to the contrary . 97. [23rd March, 2006] Enacted by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. 77. 208. The sealing of any order, summons or warrant shall not be necessary in addition to the signature of the Judge or Magistrate or Justice of the Peace by whom the same shall be signed, except in cases where sealing is expressly directed by this or any other Act. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 44 and 45 when a Director of Public Prosecutions shall have been appointed, he shall have power in any case in which he considers it desirable so to do. 182. (a) The wife or husband of a person charged with an offence under sections 48 to 55 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, may be called as a witness either for the prosecution or defence and without the consent of the person charged. The fact that the indictment has been so signed shall be equivalent to a statement that all conditions required by law to constitute the offence charged, and to give the Court jurisdiction, have been fulfilled in the particular case. In the..Court at. To.(name and designation of person or persons who is or are to execute the warrant). Bin Rafaah v Precious Minerals Marketing Company (Sierra Leone) Limited (CIV APP 1 of 1999) [1998] SLCA 2 (23 October . WHEREAS.(name of offender) was on the.day, of19..convicted before me of the offence of..and. 129. (b) if such criminal offence is not punishable by death be tried by the court with a jury consisting of twelve men: unless, i.such person shall have elected to be tried, or shall have been ordered to be tried by the court with the aid of Assessors in accordance with the provisions of sections 144: or. Act, 1965 Assented to in Her Majesty's name this 8th day of June, 1965. a.presumed or actual partiality or prejudice in the juror as standing in the relation of husband, master or servant, landlord or tenant to the person accused or to the person supposed to have been injured or affected by the act complained of, or to the person on whose complaint the prosecution was instituted; being in the employment of either of such person; being plaintiff or defendant against either of such persons; in any civil suit, or having complained against or having been accused by either of such persons in any criminal prosecution, or entertaining prejudiced views on the case to be tried; b.some personal cause as infancy, old age, deafness, blindness, infirmity or ill-health; c.that the juror has been convicted of perjury or other offence, disqualifying him from acting as a juror; d. that the juror does not understand the English language, but this shall not be a ground of disqualification, if the juror understands the usual language of the place where trial is held, unless the Court shall think fit so to order. Bail is the process by which a court releases a person pending appearance at a future court hearing. A mere 10-15% of Sierra Leoneans think the government should tax more, while 47% or rural and 24% of urban people think it should tax less. 194. Amendment of section 78 of Act No. 244. b.the amount in which they and the person for whose arrest the warrant is issued are to be respectively bound; c.the Court before which the person arrested it to attend; and. death was this day executed in the said prison (or as the case may be), and that on such examination I found that the said.was dead. I,.(name and designation), make oath and say as follows:-, At or aboutm. in the.noon of theday of19, I personally, served upon..(name of person summoned) by.(state method of service) a summons issued, by(issuing Court) in the matter of.(prosecutor) versus.(accused) wherein the. Where a sentence or conviction does not order the payment of money, but orders that the offender be imprisoned, the Court shall issue a warrant of commitment accordingly. 193. 68. Other days thereafter receive, comfort, harbour, assist and maintain the said H. C. Statement of Offence Robbery with violence, contrary to section 23 (1) (b) of the Larceny Act, 1916. in order to hear the statement which I propose to take from the said Now these are to command you to produce the said prisoner at.(place) at..m. on.the.day of..next there to continue until the said statement shall have been. c.to discontinue at any stage before judgment is delivered any such criminal proceedings. 43. The respondent claimed that the deceased had sold the land to him some time in . 66. All such amendment shall be made upon such term as the Court shall seem just. 3. Proof of service outside local limits of jurisdiction. A person who has been tried by a national court for the acts referred to in articles 2 to 4 of the . on theday ofand on divers days between That day andday, ofatin the Western Area Province of Sierra Leone, conspired together with intent to defraud by. Cross-examination of witnesses for the prosecution. The Governor-General may make rules to be observed on the execution of a judgment of death, for the purposes, of guarding against any abuse in such execution and giving greater solemnity to the same, and of making known without the prison walls that such execution is taking and has taken place. Without prejudice to the provisions of any enactment, all criminal offences shall be enquired into, tried and otherwise dealt with according to the provisions of this Act. 136. 166. person at the time of making such declaration believed himself in danger of imminent death and entertained at the time of making it no hopes of recovery. .fine or any part thereof: Now these are to command you to receive the saidInto your custody together with this, warrant, and him safely to keep in the said prison for the said period of.unless the said. Assented to in Her Majesty's name this 1st day of October, 1965. (7) Subject to any other provisions of these rules, it shall be sufficient describe any place, thing, matter, act or omission whatsoever to which it is necessary to refer in any information or indictment on ordinary language in such a manner as to indicate with reasonable clearness the place, time, thing, matter, act omission referred to. 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