[Rev. 2012] Penal Code CAP. 63 CHAPTER XXIV – ASSAULTS 250. Common assault Any person who unlawfully assaults another is guilty of a misdemeanour and, if the assault is not committed in circumstances for which a greater punishment is provided in this Code, is liable to imprisonment for one year. 251. Assault causing actual bodily harm Any person who commits an assault occasioning actual bodily harm is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for five years. [Act No. 52 of 1955, s. 14.] 252. Assault on persons protecting wreck Any person who assaults and strikes or wounds any magistrate, officer or other person lawfully authorized in or on account of the execution of his duty in or concerning the preservation of any vessel in distress, or of any vessel or goods or effects wrecked, stranded or cast on shore, or lying under water, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. 253. Other assaults Any person who— (a) assaults any person with intent to commit a felony or to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of himself or of any other person for any offence; or (b) assaults, resists or wilfully obstructs any police officer in the due execution of his duty, or any person acting in aid of that officer; or (c) assaults any person in pursuance of any unlawful combination or conspiracy to raise the rate of wages, or respecting any trade, business or manufacture or respecting any person concerned or employed therein; or (d) assaults, resists or obstructs any person engaged in lawful execution of process, or in making a lawful distress, with intent to rescue any property lawfully taken under such process or distress; or (e) assaults any person on account of any act done by him in the execution of any duty imposed on him by law, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for five years. CHAPTER XXV – OFFENCES AGAINST LIBERTY 254. Definition of kidnapping from Kenya Any person who conveys any person beyond the limits of Kenya without the consent of that person, or of some person legally authorized to consent on behalf of that person, is said to kidnap that person from Kenya. 255. Definition of kidnapping from lawful guardianship Any person who takes or entices any minor under fourteen years of age if a male, or under sixteen years of age if a female, or any person of unsound mind, P6-79 [Issue 1]