Rules, orders, &c., touching the forms and manner of proceeding in civil and criminal cases, before the superior and inferior courts of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...(J). 15. And be it further enacted and declared, that it shall and may Arrest by private be lawful for any private person to arrest any other person, upon person in certain reasonable suspicion that he has committed any of the crimes specified lTsus VicTTM1" in the fourteenth section of this Ordinance, or any other crime of an butYthown equal degree of guilt; but every arrest, or attempt to arrest, made by peril. any private person, upon suspicion, shall be made at his own peril, if the party so arrested, or attempted to be arrested, be innocent. 16. And be it further enacted and declared, that every private Arrest by private person shall be hereby authorized and required, to lay hold of any per_m case of person, whom he may see engaged in committing an affray, in order an ay to prevent such person from continuing the affray, and to suppress the same. 17. And be it further enacted and declared, that every person who, in what circumknowing the purpose for which any officer of the law or private person stances the killing is acting, shall kill any such officer or person, while attempting to make of ai"tej"nn or assisting in making any arrest, or while interfering in order to sujaaeTof" suppress any affray, which, in virtue of the provisions of this Ordinance, arrest shall be such officer or person is authorized and required to make, or to assist murder, and in to make, or to suppress, shall be deemed, in law, to be guilty of the aMeVorakide. crime of murder; and that every person, who shall kill any private a person, while attempting to make any arrest, under the circumstances set forth in the fourteenth section of this Ordinance, knowing the purpose for which such private person so killed was acting, shall be deemed, in law, to be guilty ...