CHAPTER THREE
Procedure

PART VI
INDICTABLE TRIALS

SUB-PART A
THE TRIAL

Joinder

Joining of counts, but murder alone to be charged
832.— (1) Any number of counts for any offences may be joined in the same indictment if the offences are founded on the same facts or form or are a part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character, but with respect to a count charging murder, no count charging any other offence than murder shall be joined.

(2) When there are more counts than one in an indictment, each count may be treated as a separate indictment.

(3) If the Court thinks it conducive to the ends of justice so to do, it may direct that the accused person be tried on any one or more of such counts separately.

(4) The Court may make such order either before or in the course of the trial, and, if it is made in the course of the trial, the jury shall be discharged from giving a verdict on the counts on which the trial is not to proceed.

(5) The counts in the indictment which are not then tried shall be proceeded upon in all respects as if they had been contained in a separate indictment.

(6) Unless there are special reasons for so doing, the Court shall not make an order preventing the trial at the same time of any number of distinct charges of stealing, not exceeding five, alleged to have been committed within six months from the first to the last of such offences whether or not against the same person.


Charging any or all of several offences
833. If a single act or series of acts is of such a nature that it is doubtful which of the several offences is constituted by the facts which can be proved, the accused may be charged with having committed all or any of those offences and any number of such charges may be tried at once, or he or she may be charged in the alternative with having committed some or one of those offences.

CHAPTER FOUR
Punishment, Pardon, Remission, Rewards and Miscellaneous Matters

PART I
General Provisions

SUB-PART A – PUNISHMENT IN GENERAL

Several acts respecting one person or thing, each of which is a crime
1092.— (1) Where a person does several acts against or in respect of another person or thing, each of which is a crime under this Code or any other enactment, but all of which acts are done in execution of the same design, and, in the opinion of the Court before which the person is tried, from one or continuous transaction, the person may be punished for all of such acts as one crime, or for any one of such several acts as one crime, and all the acts may be taken into consideration in determining punishment, but he or she shall not be liable to separate punishments with respect to the several crimes;

(2) If a person by one act assaults, harms, or kills several persons or in any manner causes injury to several persons or things, he or she shall be punished in respect of one of the persons so assaulted, harmed, or killed or of the persons to whom or things to which injury is so caused, but in determining punishment the Court may take into consideration all the intended or probable consequences of the crime.