The Criminal Procedure Act | The Criminal Procedure Act — Tanzania law | Esheria

The Criminal Procedure Act

If two or more people are charged together with a crime, the charge does not need to spell out each alternative way they may have committed it.

Jurisdiction
Tanzania
Instrument
Act or statute
Citation
The Criminal Procedure Act
Version
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Language
en
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About this statute

If two or more people are charged together with a crime, the charge does not need to spell out each alternative way they may have committed it. A person who has already been tried and convicted or acquitted cannot be tried again for the same offence on the same facts unless that conviction or acquittal has been reversed or set aside. A person who has been convicted or acquitted of an offence may later be tried for another offence that could have been charged in the earlier trial under section 134(1). A person who was convicted or acquitted for an act may later be tried for a different offence if the consequences had not happened, or were not known to the court, at the time of the first case. A person can still be charged and tried for another offence based on the same acts if the first court was not competent to try that offence.

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