Limit of punishment of offense made up of several offenses : Where anything which is an offense is made up of parts:, any of which parts is itself an offense the offender shall not be punished with the of more than one of such of his offenses:, unless it be so expressly provided:, Where anything is an offense falling within two or more separate definitions of any law in force for the time being by which offenses are defined or punished:, or where several acts:, of which one or more than one would by itself or themselves constitute an offense:, constitute:, when combined:, a different offense:. The offender shall not be punished with a more severe punishment than the Court which tries him could award for any one of such offenses:. Punishment of person guilty of one of several offenses:, 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 offenses specified in the judgment:, but that it is doubtful of which of these offenses he is guilty:, the offender shall be punished for the offense for which the lowest punishment is provided if the same punishment is not provided for all:. 73:, Solitary confinement:, Whenever any person is convicted of an offense for which under this Code:, the Court has power to sentence him to rigorous imprisonment:, the Court may:, by its sentence:, order that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of the imprisonment to which he is sentenced:, not exceeding three months in the whole:, according to the following scale:, that is to say:. A time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months:, a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and shall not exceed one year:, a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year:. Limit of solitary confinement:. In executing a sentence of solitary confinement:, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time:, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods:, and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three months:, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven days in any one month of the whole imprisonment awarded:, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods:.
1:, limit of punishment of offense made up of several offenses
2:, punishment of person guilty of one of several offenses:, the judgment stating that it is doubtful of which:,
3:, solitary confinement:,
4:, limit of solitary confinement:.
ILLUSTRATIONS
:(a:) A gives Z fifty strokes with a stick:. Here A may have committed the offense of voluntarily causing hurt to Z by the whole beating and also by each of the blows which make up the whole beating:. If A were liable to punishment for every blow:, he might be imprisoned for fifty years:, one for each blow:. But he is liable only to one punishment for the whole beating :(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
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