CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 49 Alternative verdicts for certain other offences against the person
CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 49
Alternative verdicts for certain other offences against the personIf, on a trial for an offence against a provision specified in column 2 in an item in table 49, the jury is not satisfied that the accused is guilty of that offence but is satisfied that the accused is guilty of an offence against a provision specified in column 3 in that item, it may find the accused not guilty of the offence charged but guilty of the offence against the provision specified in column 3:
Table 49
|
column 1 Item |
column 2 offence charged |
column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | section 12 (2) (Murder) |
• section 15 (2)
(Manslaughter) |
| 2 | section 15 (1) (Manslaughter) |
•
section 17 (1) (Suicide—aiding etc) |
| 3 |
(Intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm) |
• section 20
(Recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm), simple offence |
| 4 |
(Recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm) |
• section 23 (Inflicting actual
bodily harm), simple offence |
| 5 | (Wounding) | •
section 23 (Inflicting actual bodily harm), simple offence |
6 | (Assault with intent to commit other offence) | • section 26 (Common assault), simple offence |
| 7 |
(Assault occasioning actual bodily harm) | • section 26 (Common assault), simple offence |
| 8 | section 27 (3) (a) (Acts endangering life etc—choking etc rendering person unconscious etc) | • section 28 (2) (a) (Acts endangering health etc), simple offence |
| 9 | section 27 (3) (b) (Acts endangering life etc—administering drugs etc endangering life etc) | • section 28 (2) (b) (Acts endangering health etc), simple offence |
10 | section 27 (3) (e) (Acts endangering life etc—causing explosions etc endangering life etc) | • section 28 (2) (c) (Acts endangering health etc), simple offence |
| 11 |
section 27 (3) (f) (Acts endangering life etc—setting traps endangering life etc) | • section 28 (2) (d) (Acts endangering health etc), simple offence |
| 12 | section 27 (3) (g) (Acts endangering life etc—interfering with conveyances and endangering life etc) | • section 28 (2) (e) (Acts endangering health etc), simple offence |
13 | section 28 (2) (a) (Acts endangering health etc—choking, suffocating or strangling) | • section 26 (Common assault), simple offence |
| 14 | section 29 (2) (Culpable driving of motor vehicle)—causing death |