Saint Lucia

Criminal Code

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.

Keywords

Continuous criminal offences
Multiplicity of criminal offences
Aggregation of criminal offences
Joint sentence following multiple convictions - national proceedings



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