Illustration – (“A”) is sentenced to a fine of LS50 to four months’ imprisonment in default of payment. If LS20 of the fine be paid or levied before the expiration of two months of imprisonment, (“A”) will be discharged as soon as the two months are completed. If LS20 be paid or levied at the time of the expiration of those two months or at any late time while (“A”) continues in imprisonment, (“A”) will be immediately discharged. Section 73 – “Fine Discharged by Death or Service of Sentence in Default of Payment”: Where a fine or any part thereof remains unpaid the offender or his estate, if he is dead, is discharged from liability to pay the fine or the unpaid part thereof notwithstanding that he has served a term of imprisonment in default of payment of the fine. Section 74 - “Limit of Punishment when Act Falls within Definition of more than one Offence, or when Offence made up of Several Offences”: When the same act falls within the definition of more than one offence or when an offence consists of a series of acts any one or more of which constitutes the same or some other offence, the offender shall not, unless it be otherwise expressly provided, be punished with a more severe punishment that the Court which tries him could award for any one of such offences. Illustrations (a) (“A”) gives (“Z”) fifty strokes with a stick. Here (“A”) can be punished for one beating only although each blow may by itself constitute an offence; (b) But if, while (“A”) is beating (“Z”) (“Y”) interferes and (“A”) intentionally strikes (“Y”), here, as the blow given to (“Y”) is no part of the act whereby (“A”) voluntarily causes hurt to (“Z”), (“A”) is liable to one punishment for voluntarily causing hurt to (“Z”) and to another for the blow given to (“Y”). Section 75 - “Punishment of Person Guilty of one of Several Offences, the Judgment Stating that it is Doubtful of which”: In all cases in which judgment is given that a person is guilty of one of several offences specified in the judgment but that it is doubtful of which of these offences he is guilty, the offender shall be punishable for the offence for which the lowest punishment is provided, if the same punishment is not provided for all. Section 76 - “Whipping”: A sentence of whipping not exceeding ten strokes may be passed by the Court of a Magistrate of the first or second class when trying a case summarily on any male offender, in lieu of imprisonment or any other punishment to which he might be sentenced under this Code. 16

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