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Penal Code
[Rev. 2012]
226. Attempting suicide
Any person who attempts to kill himself is guilty of a misdemeanour.
227. Concealing birth
Any person who, when a woman is delivered of a child, endeavours by any
secret disposition of the dead body of the child to conceal the birth, whether the
child died before, at or after its birth, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
228. Killing unborn child
Any person who, when a woman is about to be delivered of a child, prevents the
child from being born alive by any act or omission of such a nature that, if the child
had been born alive and had then died, he would be deemed to have unlawfully
killed the child, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
CHAPTER XXII – OFFENCES ENDANGERING LIFE AND HEALTH
229. Disabling in order to commit felony or misdemeanour
Any person who, by any means calculated to choke, suffocate or strangle, and
with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of a felony or misdemeanour, or
to facilitate the flight of an offender after the commission or attempted commission
of a felony or misdemeanour, renders or attempts to render any person incapable
of resistance, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
[Act No. 52 of 1955, s. 12.]
230. Stupefying in order to commit felony or misdemeanour
Any person who, with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of a felony
or misdemeanour, or to facilitate the flight of an offender after the commission or
attempted commission of a felony or misdemeanour, administers or attempts to
administer any stupefying or overpowering drug or thing to any person, is guilty of
a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
231. Acts intended to cause grievous harm or to prevent arrest
Any person who, with intent to maim, disfigure or disable any person, or to
do some grievous harm to any person, or to resist or prevent the lawful arrest or
detention of any person—
(a) unlawfully wounds or does any grievous harm to any person by any
means whatever; or
(b) unlawfully attempts in any manner to strike any person with any kind of
projectile or with a spear, sword, knife or other dangerous or offensive
weapon; or
(c) unlawfully causes any explosive substance to explode; or
(d) sends or delivers any explosive substance or other dangerous or
noxious thing to any person; or
(e) causes any such substance or thing to be taken or received by any
person; or
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