Human Leopards : $b an account of the trials of Human Leopards before the Special Commission Court; with a note on Sierra Leone, past and presentBeatty, Kenneth James
History
Human Leopards : $b an account of the trials of Human Leopards before the Special Commission Court; with a note on Sierra Leone, past and present
Beatty, Kenneth James
Cannibalism; Ethnology -- Sierra Leone; Leopard men; Sierra Leone -- History
12. When any person shall have been convicted of complicity in any
murder committed in connection with an unlawful society, whether
before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, and the Governor
shall have decided to grant a pardon to such person on condition of
his undergoing a term of imprisonment with or without hard labour,
or when any person shall have been convicted of complicity in any
murder aforesaid not involving the punishment of death, or when any
person shall have been convicted of an offence under this Ordinance
or any Ordinance amending the same, and shall have been sentenced by
the Court to undergo a term of imprisonment with or without hard
labour, the judge before whom such person was so tried and convicted
shall forthwith send a report of such case to the Governor, and it
shall then be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to direct that such
person, not being an alien, shall be deported from the Colony or
Protectorate to any other British Colony, there to serve such term
of imprisonment in such prison as the Governor of such Colony may
direct.
[Sidenote: Expulsion of aliens.]
6.—(1) In the case of a convicted person, who is an alien, it shall be
lawful for the Governor-in-Council, after the completion of the term of
imprisonment awarded to such convicted person, to make an order (in this
Ordinance referred to as an expulsion order) requiring such alien to
leave the Colony or Protectorate within a time fixed by the order and
thereafter to remain out of the Colony and Protectorate.
(2) If any alien in whose case an expulsion order has been made is at
any time found within the Colony or Protectorate in contravention of the
order, he shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment, with or
without hard labour, for a term not exceeding ten years.
(3) Any person aiding or attempting to aid any person, in whose case an
expulsion order has been made, to return to the Colony or Protectorate,
and any person harbouring such person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour
and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment, with or without
hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years.
7. The schedule to the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by adding
at the end thereof the following words:—
(6) A dress made of baboon skins commonly used by members of an
unlawful society.
(7) A “kukoi” or whistle, commonly used for calling together the
members of an unlawful society.
(8) An iron needle, commonly used for branding members of an
unlawful society.
[Sidenote: Interpretation of terms.]
8. In this Ordinance “unlawful society” means the Human Leopard Society,
the Human Alligator Society, or any other society existing for the
purpose of committing or encouraging or procuring the commission of
murder.
“Alien” means a person who is a natural-born subject or citizen of a
foreign state, or has been naturalized as such.
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