Law library · Sierra Leone · THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965
Section 118: Discharge.
RepealedTHE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965, Sierra Leone
If the Court considers that the evidence against the accused is not sufficient to put him on his trial, the Court
shall forthwith order him to be discharged as to the particular charge under investigation; but such discharge shall not
be a bar to any subsequent charge in respect of the same facts:
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall prevent the Court from either forthwith, or after such
adjournment of the investigation as may seem expedient in the interest of justice, proceeding to investigate any other
charge upon which the accused may have been summoned or otherwise brought before it, or which in the course of
the charge so dismissed as aforesaid it may appear that the accused has committed.
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