Sec. 8 CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT, 1951

Taking of other offences into consideration in awarding punishment.

Taking of other offences into consideration in awarding punishment.

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8.—(1) Where a person, on being convicted of an offence, admits himself guilty of any other offence and asks to have it taken into consideration in awarding punishment, the Court may take it into consideration accordingly.

(2) If the Court takes an offence into consideration, a note of that fact shall be made and filed with the record of the sentence, and the accused shall not be prosecuted for that offence, unless his conviction is reversed on appeal.

← Restriction of section 10 (4) of Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851. CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT, 1951 Deposition as evidence at trial. →