PART VIII
EVIDENCE, AMENDMENT, JUDGMENTS, ETC.

41. Depositions may be read in evidence for other offence than that for which they were taken.

Depositions taken in the preliminary or other investigation of any charge against any person may be read as evidence in the prosecu¬tion of such person for any other offence whatsoever, upon the like proof, and in the same mannerin all respects, as they may, according to law, be read in the prosecution of the offence with which such person was charged when the depositions were taken.

PART VIII
EVIDENCE, AMENDMENT, JUDGMENTS, ETC.

43. Crime or interest does not incapacitate a witness

No person offered as a witness shall, by reason of any alleged Crime or interest incapacity from crime or interest, be excluded from giving evidence on the trial of any criminal case, or in any proceeding relating, or incidental, to such case.


44.Persons so offered as witnesses are compellable to give evidence.

Every person, so offered as a witness, shall be admitted and be compellable to give evidence on oath, or solemn affirmation where an affirmation is receivable, notwithstanding that such person has, or may have, an interest in the matter in question, or in the event of the trial in which he is offered as a witness, or of any proceeding relating, or incidental, to such case, and notwithstanding that such person, so offered as a witness, has been previously convicted of a crime or offence.