- Section 311 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Where accused adduces no evidence
If the accused person says that he does not intend to give or adduce evidence and the court considers that there is evidence that he committed the offence, the advocate for the prosecution shall then sum up the case against the accused person, and the court shall then call on the accused person...
- Section 322 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Delivery of judgment
(1) When the case on both sides is closed, the judge shall then give judgment.
(2) If the accused person is convicted, the judge shall pass sentence on him according to law.
- Section 323 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Calling upon the accused
If the judge convicts the accused person, or if the accused person pleads guilty, the Registrar or other officer of the court shall ask him whether he has anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him according to law, but the omission so to ask him shall have no effect on the validity...
- Section 324 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Motion in arrest of judgment
(1) The accused person may, at any time before sentence, whether on his pleaof guilty or otherwise, move in arrest of judgment on the ground that the information does not, after any amendment which the court has made and had power to make, state an offence which the court has power to try.
(2) The...
- Section 325 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Sentence
If no motion in arrest of judgment is made, or if the court decides against the accused person upon a motion, the court may sentence the accused person at any time during the session.
- Section 326 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Power to reserve decision on question raised at trial
The court before which a person is tried for an offence may reserve the giving of its final decision on questions raised at the trial, and its decision whenever given shall be considered as given at the time of the trial.
- Section 327 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Power to reserve questions arising in the course of the trial
(1) When a person has, in a trial before the High Court, been convicted of anoffence, the judge may reserve and refer for the decision of a court consisting of two or more judges of the High Court any question which has arisen in the course of the trial, and the determination of which would affect...
- Section 328 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Objections cured by verdict
No judgment shall be stayed or reversed on the ground of an objection which, if stated after the information was read over to the accused person, or during the progress of the trial, might have been amended by the court, nor for any informality in swearing the witnesses or any of them.
- Section 329 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Evidence for arriving at a proper sentence
The court may, before passing sentence, receive such evidence as it thinks fit in order to inform itself as to the proper sentence to be passed.
- Section 329A of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Interpretation
In this Part—
“family victim”, in relation to an offence as a direct result of which a primary victim has died, means a person who was, at the time the offence was committed, a member of the primary victim’s immediate family, and includes such a person whether or not the person has suffered...
- Section 329B of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Application of Part
This Part applies in relation to an offence that is being dealt with by any court, where the offence results in the death of, or actual physical bodily harm to, any person.
- Section 329C of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: When victim impact statements may be received and considered
(1) If it considers it appropriate to do so, a court may receive and consider a victim impact statement at any time after it convicts, but before it sentences, an offender.
(2) If the primary victim has died as a direct result of the offence, the court shall receive a victim impact statement given...
- Section 329D of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Victim impact statements discretionary
(1) The giving of a victim impact statement is not mandatory.
(2) A victim impact statement shall not be received or considered by a court if the victim or any of the victims to whom the statement relates objects to the statement being given to the court.
(3) The absence of a victim impact...
- Section 329E of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Formal requirements for victim impact statements
(1) A victim impact statement shall be in writing and shall comply with suchother requirements as are prescribed by rules of court.
(2) If a primary victim is incapable of providing information for or objecting to avictim impact statement about the personal harm suffered by the victim, a member of...
- Section 329F of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Rules of court
The Chief Justice may make any rules of court necessary or expedient to be made for carrying this Part into effect.
- Section 330 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Accused to be informed of right to appeal
When an accused person is sentenced to death, the court shall inform him of the time within which, if he wishes to appeal, his appeal should be preferred.
- Section 331 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Authority for detention
A certificate under the hand of the Registrar or other officer of the court that sentence of death has been passed, and naming the person condemned, shall be sufficient authority for the detention of that person.
- Section 332 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Record and report to be sent to President
(1) As soon as conveniently may be after sentence of death has been pronounced, if no appeal from the sentence is confirmed, then as soon as conveniently may be after confirmation, the presiding judge shall forward to the President a copy of the notes of evidence taken on the trial, with a report in...
- Section 333 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Warrant in case of sentence of imprisonment
(1) A warrant under the hand of the judge or magistrate by whom a person issentenced to imprisonment, ordering that the sentence shall be carried out in any prison within Kenya, shall be issued by the sentencing judge or magistrate, and shall be full authority to the officer in charge of the prison...
- Section 334 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Warrant for levy of fine, etc.
(1) When a court orders money to be paid by an accused person or by aprosecutor or complainant for fine, penalty, compensation, costs, expenses or otherwise, the money may be levied on the movable and immovable property of the person ordered to pay it by distress and sale under warrant; but if he...
- Section 335 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Objections to attachment
(1) Any person claiming to be entitled to or to have a legal or equitable interest in the whole or part of property attached in execution of a warrant issued under section 334 may, at any time prior to the receipt by the court of the proceeds of sale of that property, give notice in writing to the...
- Section 336 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Suspension of execution of sentence of imprisonment in default of fine
(1) When a convicted person has been sentenced to a fine only and to imprisonment in default of payment of a fine, and whether or not a warrant of distress has been issued under section 334, the court may suspend the execution of the sentence of imprisonment and may release the convicted person upon...
- Section 337 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Commitment for want of distress
If the officer having the execution of a warrant of distress reports that he could find no property or not sufficient property whereon to levy the money mentioned in the warrant with expenses, the court may by the same or a subsequent warrant commit the person ordered to pay to prison for a time...
- Section 338 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Commitment in lieu of distress
When it appears to the court that distress and sale of property would be ruinous to the person ordered to pay the money or his family, or (by his confession or otherwise) that he has no property whereon the distress may be levied, or other sufficient reason appears to the court, the court may,...
- Section 339 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Payment in full after commitment
A person committed for non-payment may pay the sum mentioned in the warrant, with the amount of expenses therein authorized (if any), to the person in whose custody he is, and that person shall thereupon discharge him if he is in custody for no other matter.
- Section 340 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Part payment after commitment
(1) If a person who is confined in prison for non-payment of a sum adjudgedby a court in its criminal jurisdiction to be paid under this Code or under any other Act pays a sum in part satisfaction of the sum adjudged to be paid, the term of his imprisonment shall be reduced by a number of days...
- Section 341 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Who may issue warrant
A warrant for the execution of a sentence may be issued either by the judge or magistrate who passed the sentence or by his successor in office.
- Section 342 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Limitation of imprisonment for non-payment of fine, etc.
No commitment for non-payment shall be for a longer period than six months, unless the law under which the conviction has taken place enjoins or allows a longer period.
- Section 343 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Person twice convicted may be subject to police supervision
(1) When a person, having been convicted of an offence punishable withimprisonment for a term of three years or more is again convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a similar term or of an offence under section 345, the court may, at the time of passing sentence of imprisonment on...
- Section 344 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Requirements from persons subject to police supervision
(1) A court may at any time direct that a person shall, whilst subject to police supervision under section 343 and at large in Kenya, comply with all or any of the following requirements, and may vary any such directions at any time-
(a) to reside within the limits of a specified area;
(b) not to...