Chapter 20

OFFENCES CONNECTED WITH MURDER AND SUICIDE.

204. Attempt to murder.

Any person who— (a) attempts unlawfully to cause the death of another; or (b) with intent unlawfully to cause the death of another, does any act or omits to do any act, which it is his or her duty to do, such act or omission being of such a nature as to be likely to endanger human life, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.

205. Attempt to murder by convict.

Any person who, being under sentence of imprisonment for three years or more, attempts to commit murder is liable to imprisonment for life, with or without corporal punishment.

206. Accessory after the fact to murder.

Any person who becomes an accessory after the fact to murder commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

207. Written threats to murder.

Any person who, knowing the contents of the writing, directly or indirectly causes any person to receive any writing threatening to kill any person commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

208. Conspiracy to murder.

Any person who conspires with any other person to kill any person, whether such person is in Uganda or elsewhere, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

209. Aiding suicide.

Any person who— (a) procures another to kill himself or herself; (b) counsels another to kill himself or herself and thereby induces him or her to do so; or (c) aids another in killing himself or herself, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.

210. Attempting suicide.

Any person who attempts to kill himself or herself commits a misdemeanour.

211. Concealing birth of child.

Any person who, when a woman is delivered of a child, endeavours by any secret disposition of the dead body of the child to conceal the birth, whether the child died before, at or after its birth, commits a misdemeanour.

212. Killing unborn child.

Any person who, when a woman is about to be delivered of a child, prevents the child from being born alive by any act or omission of such a nature that if the child had been born alive and had then died, he or she would be deemed to have unlawfully killed the child, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.

213. Infanticide.

Where a woman by any wilful act or omission causes the death of her child being a child under the age of twelve months, but at the time of the act or omission the balance of her mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child, then, notwithstanding that the circumstances were such that but for the provisions of this section the offence would have amounted to murder, she commits the felony of infanticide, and may for such offence be dealt with and punished as if she had been guilty of the offence of manslaughter of the child.