DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.34369#0265
ACT XIX.
255
A.D. 1847.]
of any of the offences hereinafter mentioned, accompanied with an attempt
to commit murder, or with wounding or other corporal injury to any person
endangering the life of such person', that is to say,—
1st. Breaking, or attempting to break, by day or night, into any
dwelling-house, tent, boat, or other habitation, or into any building or place
used for the preservation of property, with the intent to rob or steal.
2nd. Robbery or attempt to rob;
3rd. Stealing or attempting to steal in a house, or from the person ;
Shall be sentenced by such general court-martial to imprisonment with
or without hard labour and transportation for life.
ARTICLE 121.
Any otRcer or soldier who shall be convicted by a general court-martial
of any of the offences specihed in the last article, accompanied with wound-
ing or other corporal injury to any person not endangering the life of such
person; -— or
ARTICLE 122.
Of wounding, or administering poison with intent to murder, whether
the person wounded or to whom poison is administered, be the person
whom the offender intended to murder or another ; — or
ARTICLE 123.
Of robbery by open violence, or dacoity, that is to say, going forth in the
day or in the night with an offensive weapon, or in a gang with or without
an offensive weapon, with the intention of committing robbery, and by
force or intimidation robbing or attempting to rob any person in any place,
or attacking by open violence any house, or place of habitation, or any
place in which property may be kept, for the purpose of robbery ; — or
ARTICLE 124.
Of breaking, or attempting to break, into any dwelling-house, tent,
boat, or other place of habitation, between sunset and sunrise, with an
intent to rob or steal; — or
ARTICLE 125.
Of breaking into any such place of habitation, or into any place used
for the preservation of property, and stealing therefrom property the value
of which shall exceed one hundred Company's rupees; — or
ARTICLE 126.
Of purchasing or receiving plundered or stolen property, knowing it to
have been obtained by robbery by open violence, or by theft or robbery
aggravated as described in Article 120 or Article 121;
Shall be sentenced by such general court-martial to imprisonment with
or without hard labour for a period not exceeding fourteen years.
SECTION VI.
Mode of dealing with
Offences not Military.
Offences.
Punishment.
255
A.D. 1847.]
of any of the offences hereinafter mentioned, accompanied with an attempt
to commit murder, or with wounding or other corporal injury to any person
endangering the life of such person', that is to say,—
1st. Breaking, or attempting to break, by day or night, into any
dwelling-house, tent, boat, or other habitation, or into any building or place
used for the preservation of property, with the intent to rob or steal.
2nd. Robbery or attempt to rob;
3rd. Stealing or attempting to steal in a house, or from the person ;
Shall be sentenced by such general court-martial to imprisonment with
or without hard labour and transportation for life.
ARTICLE 121.
Any otRcer or soldier who shall be convicted by a general court-martial
of any of the offences specihed in the last article, accompanied with wound-
ing or other corporal injury to any person not endangering the life of such
person; -— or
ARTICLE 122.
Of wounding, or administering poison with intent to murder, whether
the person wounded or to whom poison is administered, be the person
whom the offender intended to murder or another ; — or
ARTICLE 123.
Of robbery by open violence, or dacoity, that is to say, going forth in the
day or in the night with an offensive weapon, or in a gang with or without
an offensive weapon, with the intention of committing robbery, and by
force or intimidation robbing or attempting to rob any person in any place,
or attacking by open violence any house, or place of habitation, or any
place in which property may be kept, for the purpose of robbery ; — or
ARTICLE 124.
Of breaking, or attempting to break, into any dwelling-house, tent,
boat, or other place of habitation, between sunset and sunrise, with an
intent to rob or steal; — or
ARTICLE 125.
Of breaking into any such place of habitation, or into any place used
for the preservation of property, and stealing therefrom property the value
of which shall exceed one hundred Company's rupees; — or
ARTICLE 126.
Of purchasing or receiving plundered or stolen property, knowing it to
have been obtained by robbery by open violence, or by theft or robbery
aggravated as described in Article 120 or Article 121;
Shall be sentenced by such general court-martial to imprisonment with
or without hard labour for a period not exceeding fourteen years.
SECTION VI.
Mode of dealing with
Offences not Military.
Offences.
Punishment.