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Crimes Act 1900
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49 Alternative verdicts for certain other offences against the
If, on a trial for an offence against a provision specified in column 2
in an item in table 49, the jury is not satisfied that the accused is guilty
of that offence but is satisfied that the accused is guilty of an offence
against a provision specified in column 3 in that item, it may find the
accused not guilty of the offence charged but guilty of the offence
against the provision specified in column 3:
Table 49
Item
1 section 12 (2)
(Murder)
• section 15 (2) (Manslaughter)
• section 47 (1) (Concealment of birth)
Item
2 section 15 (1)
(Manslaughter)
• section 29 (2) (Culpable driving of motor vehicle)
• section 47 (1) (Concealment of birth)
3 section 19
(Intentionally inflicting
grievous bodily harm)
• section 21 (Wounding), simple offence
4 section 20
(Recklessly inflicting
grievous bodily harm)
• section 29 (4) (Culpable driving of motor vehicle)
5 section 21
(Wounding)
6 section 22
(Assault with intent to
commit other offence)
7 section 24
(Assault occasioning
actual bodily harm)
Item
8 section 27 (3) (a)
etc—choking etc
rendering person
unconscious etc)
• section 28 (2) (a) (Acts endangering health etc),
9 section 27 (3) (b)
etc—administering drugs
etc endangering life etc)
• section 28 (2) (b) (Acts endangering health etc),
10 section 27 (3) (e)
etc—causing explosions
etc endangering life etc)
• section 28 (2) (c) (Acts endangering health etc),
11 section 27 (3) (f)
etc—setting traps
endangering life etc)
• section 28 (2) (d) (Acts endangering health etc),
12 section 27 (3) (g)
etc—interfering with
endangering life etc)
• section 28 (2) (e) (Acts endangering health etc),
13 section 28 (2) (a)
(Acts endangering health
etc—choking, suffocating
or strangling)
14 section 29 (2) (Culpable
vehicle)—causing death
Act 1999, section 6 (1), penalty, paragraph (a)
(Negligent driving)—causing death
15 section 29 (4) (Culpable
grievous bodily harm
Act 1999, section 6 (1), penalty, paragraph (b)
(Negligent driving)—causing grievous bodily
harm