172. 3. (1) The superintendent of a mental hospital, prison or other place in which any person (hereinafter referred to as a criminal lunatic) is detained by virtue of an order made under section 71 or section 73, shall make a report to the Minister which shall be accompanied by a report by a medical practitioner at such times (not being less than once a year) and containing such particulars as the Minister may require, of the conditions and circumstances of every criminal lunatic in such mental hospital prison or place; and the Minister shall, at least once in every three years during which a criminal lunatic is detained in any mental hospital, prison or other place, consider the condition, history and circumstances of such criminal lunatic and determine whether he ought to be discharged absolutely or conditionally or otherwise dealt with. 59. Transfer and discharge of criminal lunatics. Clerks and other persons employed in the Judicial and Law Officers' Departments; xvi. 137. M 4/T. A person to be tried on any indictment shall be placed at the bar unfettered, unless the Court shall see cause otherwise to order, and the indictment or charge shall be read over to him by the Registrar or other officer of the Court, and explained if need be by the officer or the interpreter of the Court, and such person shall be required forthwith to plead thereto, unless where the person is entitled to service of a copy of the indictment, he shall object to the want of such service, and the Court shall find that he has not been duly served therewith. [9[,I`xs The cancellation of a warrant may be effected by the Court issuing it, or by a Court to which such issuing Court is subordinate. If a person refuses to enter into such recognizance the Court may commit him to prison, or into the custody of any officer of the Court, there to remain until after the trial, unless in the meantime he enter into a recognizance. property taken care of and prevented from doing injury to himself or any other person or property, and for his appearance when required before the Court or before such officer as the Court may appoint in that behalf. 82. Authority for carrying out sentences not capital. If the person issued with a summons does not appear at the time and place appointed in and by the summons and his personal attendance has not been dispensed with under section 21 the Court may issue a warrant to arrest him and cause him to be brought before such court. 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 . During an adjournment the Court may in its discretion, according to the nature and circumstances of each case and subject to the provision of section 79, either suffer the accused or defendant to go at large or commit him by warrant to such prison or other place of security, or to such other safe custody as the Court thinks fit, or may discharge him on his entering into a recognizance with or without a surety or sureties. B., on the..day of.at.in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, fraudulently converted, to his own use..Province Or benefit certain property, that is to say, Le 100 entrusted to him by E.S. Conviction of manslaughter on charge of murder. 204. 188. Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. 19 - Aug. 2012 COURT OF APPEAL RULES PART I TITLE AND INTERPRETATION Title 1 These rules may be cited as The Court of Appeal Rules. Submit. (4)Where an amendment of an information is made under subsection (1) or where there is a variation between the information and the evidence as described in subsection (3), the Court shall, if it is of opinion that the accused or defendant has been thereby deceived or embarrassed, allow any witness to be recalled and further questioned upon any matters relevant to the amended or varied charge and the Court may adjourn the trial for such period as may be reasonably necessary. 4. PART I - PRELIMINARY . Power to take depositions of persons dangerously ill. 62. 245. (2) If two or more of the assessors are prevented from attending or absent themselves, the proceedings shall be stayed and a new trial shall be held with the aid of fresh assessors. 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. The Sheriff and the Keeper of the Prison, the Medical Officer in charge of the Prison, the Chaplain of the Prison or other minister of religion, and such other officers of the prison as the Sheriff requires shall be present at the. Written offers "without prejudicen save . 184. 116. (1) When, in a case tried with assessors, the case on both sides is closed, the Judge may sum up the evidence for the prosecution and defence, and shall then require each of the assessors to state his opinion orally, and shall record their opinion but the decision shall be vested exclusively in the Judge. 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. 131. In accordance with the Courts Act, No 31 of 1965, Sierra Leone is constituted into Judicial Districts, and Section 4 of the Act states that there shall be constituted Magistrates' Courts in and for every judicial district. ordered.(set out the order made). Clerk of the House of Representatives. In 2007, Kanu was convicted of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity . 171. Periodical report of criminal lunatics. Share on Twitter. Having heard you statement read do you wish to explain or add to it? Prisoner to be released on bail or acquitted and discharged if not tried within a certain time. WHEREAS.(name of offender), was on theday, of..sentenced to pay a fine of..or in default to suffer imprisonment for the period. (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. 2. 150. In addition to and independently of the facilities provided by section 30, it shall be lawful for any constable to detain any person carrying or conveying along any square, street, highway, quay or avenue or other public place any animal, matter or thing which such constable shall suspect of having been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained, or in respect of which he shall suspect that any criminal offence has been, is being or is about to be committed, and to examine any box, parcel, basket, bundle, or other package carried or conveyed by such person which he may reasonably suspect to contain any such animal, matter or thing as aforesaid; and if such person does not give a satisfactory account of himself and of any animal, matter or thing such examination may discover, to arrest such person and cause him to be taken before a Court as soon as practicable to be dealt with according to law. (a) a Judge may on the application of the prosecutor, direct a Law Officer to sign the indictment and the indictment shall be signed accordingly; b.the provisions of this section shall not be construed so as to derogate from the powers conferred upon the Attorney-General by section 44 of this Act or section 73 of the Constitution. c.any offence against sections 20, 21 and 22 of the Larceny Act, 1916. 35. 89. Power of dispenses with personal attendance of accused. 196. 4. (2) A recognisance so taken shall be of full and equal obligation on the parties entering into the same, and liable to all proceedings for the forfeiture and levy of recognisances provided by section 129. Sierra Leone is a Sovereign Republic, the boundaries of which are delimited in the First Schedule hereto. 243. 0000014786 00000 n (4) Where, before trial upon indictment or at any stage of such trial, the Court is of opinion that the postponement of the trial of the accused is expedient as a consequence of the exercise of any power of the Court under this Act, the Court shall make such order as to the postponement of the trials as appears necessary. means of an advertisement inserted by them, the said A. 0000012030 00000 n 0000012053 00000 n I hereby declare my self surety/we hereby jointly and severally declare ourselves sureties said, (name of accused) that he will be and appear before the said, .Court when called upon to answer the charge against him and will continue so to appear. Accused to be informed of complaint. 192. B., on the.day of..at..in the Western Area of Sierra Leone , with intent to defraud, obtained. I,(Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff) hereby certify that have/caused to, be served upon.(name of accused) a copy of the indictment in the matter of the charge, against him with the notice of trial, and that the nature and exigency thereof was explained to him, byand that this service was effected..(personally or in what, manner accomplished) at.(time) on..the..day. (2) Where an indictment is so amended, a note of the order for amendment shall be endorsed on the indictment, and the indictment shall be treated for the purposes of all proceedings in connection therewith as having been filed in the amended form. (2)Except where express provision is made to the contrary, every sentence shall be deemed to commence from, and to include the whole of the day of the date on which it was pronounced. command the said A. 193. Accused person to be remitted in certain cases to another Court. [1st July, 1984] [G.N. 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