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The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

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CRIMINAL CODE SS.309-317 10 1<br />

rder. Any person who conspires with any other<br />

n, whether such person is in <strong>Queensland</strong> or else-<br />

where, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour<br />

for fourteen years.<br />

Any person who commits the crime<br />

of manslaughter is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for life.<br />

e. Any person who-<br />

(1) Procures another to kill himself; or<br />

(2) Counsels another to kill himself and thereby induces him to<br />

do so; or<br />

(3) Aids another in killing himself;<br />

is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for life.<br />

g to ~~~~i~ Saniei e. Any person who attempts to kill hima<br />

misdemeanour, and is liable to i~p~sonment with hard<br />

labour for one year.<br />

Id. Any person who, when a woman is about to<br />

be delivered of a child, prevents the child from being born alive by any<br />

act or omission of such a nature that, if the child had been born alive and<br />

had then died, he would be deemed to have unlawfully killed the child,<br />

is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for<br />

life.<br />

of Gliaildsen. Any person who, when a woman<br />

is delivered of 3 child, endeavours, by any secret disposition of the dead<br />

body of the child, to conceal the birth, whether the child died before, at,<br />

or after, its birth, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to irnprison-<br />

ment with hard labour for two years.<br />

CHAPTER XXIX~FFENCES ENDANGERING LIFE OR HEALTH<br />

5. ~ ~ ~ ~ in b order ~ i to r Corn n ~ if ~ ~ ~ ~ i e ~ Any ~ ~ person ~ ~ e who, . ~ l e<br />

by any means calculated to ch , suffocate, or strangle, and with intent<br />

to commit or to facilitate the commission of an indictable offence, or to<br />

facilitate the flight of an offender after the commission or attempted<br />

commission of an indictable offence, renders or attempts to render any<br />

person incapable of resistance, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to<br />

impri§onment with hard labour for life, with or without whipping, which<br />

may be inflicted once, twice, or thrics.<br />

Eence. Any person who,<br />

o commit or to facilitate ission of an indictable<br />

offence, or to facilitate the flight of an offender after the commission or<br />

attempted commission of an indictable offence, administers, or attempts<br />

to administer, any stupefying or overpowering drug or thing to any<br />

person, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour<br />

for life.<br />

$0 @awe Grhv or ~~~~~n~ Ap<br />

who, with intent to maim, disfigure, or disable, any<br />

person, or to do some grievous bodily harm to any person, or to resist or<br />

prevent the lawful arrest or detention of any person-<br />

(1) Unlawfully wounds or does any grievous bodily harm to any<br />

person by any means whatever; or

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