Clarke, Richard [Editor]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (3): Acts from 1834 to 1853 (London, 1854)

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ACT XIX.

[A.D. 1847.

SECTION VI.
Mode of dealing with
Offences not Military.

tial.

District or garrison
courts martial.

Regimental, detach-
ment, or line courts-
martial.

Punishment of death.

Offences punishable
by transportation for
life.

persons accused of offences ordinarily cognizable by civil tribunals, such
offences, when committed by officers or soldiers, shall be cognizable by
courts-martial.
ARTICLE 116.
General courts-martial shall have cognizance, ordinarily, of offences
punishable with death;
Transportation for life ;
Imprisonment for life;
Imprisonment for a period which may extend to fourteen years ;
Imprisonment for a period which may extend to seven years.
ARTICLE 117.
District, or garrison courts-martial shall have cognizance, ordinarily, of
offences punishable with imprisonment for a period which may extend to
three years, and, by special order, of offences ordinarily cognizable by
general courts-martial not liable to the punishment of death or transport-
ation, with power to sentence persons convicted of such offences to
imprisonment for any period not exceeding three years.
ARTICLE 118.
Regimental, detachment, or line courts-martial, shall have cognizance,
ordinarily, of offences punishable with imprisonment for a period not exceed-
ing six calendar months, and, by special order, of offences ordinarily cog-
nizable by district, or garrison courts-martia!, with power to sentence
persons convicted of such offences to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding six calendar months.


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ARTICLE 119.
Any officer or soldier who shall be convicted by a general court-martial
of the crime of "murder "shall be sentenced to suffer deatlf by being-
hanged by the neck until he be dead.
If any injury intended against any one person shall, through mistake or
accident, light upon another person, and kill him, such killing shall be
deemed to be murder, whensoever it would have been murder had the
person against whom such injury was intended been killed.
Whensoever death shall result from any injury wilfully caused by an
offender, but without his intending such injury to light on any person in
particular, such offender shall be guilty of murder, if the offence would
have been murder had he intended to do the injury to the person killed.

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ARTICLE 120.
Any officer or soldier who shall be convicted by a general court-martial