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from the one made against him might have been made under
section 166 or for which he might have been convicted under
section 167.
(2) A person acquitted or convicted of any offence may be
afterwards tried for any distinct offence for which a separate
charge might have been made against him on the former trial
under subsection 165(1).
(3) A person convicted of any offence constituted by any act
causing consequences which, together with that act, constituted
a different offence from that of which he was convicted, may be
afterwards tried for that last-mentioned offence, if the consequences
had not happened or were not known to the Court to have happened
at the time when he was convicted.
(4) A person acquitted or convicted of any offence constituted
by any acts may, notwithstanding the acquittal or conviction,
be subsequently charged with and tried for any other offence
constituted by the same acts which he may have committed, if
the Court by which he was first tried was not competent to try
the offence with which he is subsequently charged.
(5) The dismissal of a complaint, or the discharge of the
accused, is not an acquittal for the purposes of this section.
ILLUSTRATIONS
(a) A is tried upon a charge of theft as a servant and acquitted. He cannot
afterwards, while the acquittal remains in force, be charged upon the same
facts with theft as a servant, or with theft simply, or with criminal breach
of trust.
(b) A is tried upon a charge of murder and acquitted. There is no charge
of robbery but it appears from the facts that A committed robbery at the
time when the murder was committed; he may afterwards be charged with
and tried for robbery.
(c) A is tried for causing grievous hurt and convicted. The person injured
afterwards dies. A may be tried again for culpable homicide.
(d) A is tried and convicted of the culpable homicide of B. A may not
afterwards be tried on the same facts for the murder of B.
(e) A is charged and convicted of voluntarily causing hurt to B. A may
not afterwards be tried for voluntarily causing grievous hurt to B on the
same facts unless the case comes within subsection (3) of this section.
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