BOOK I
General Provisions

PART II
Rules as to Criminal Responsibility

TITLE II
General Explanations

14. Provisions relating to causing an event

(6) A person shall not, by reason of anything in this section, be relieved from any liability in respect of an attempt to cause an event; and a person shall not, by reason of anything in this section, be relieved from any liability in respect of negligent conduct, if such negligent conduct is punishable under this Code irrespective of whether it actually causes any event.

BOOK I
General Provisions

PART II
Rules as to Criminal Responsibility

TITLE IV
Attempts to Commit Crimes

43. Provisions relating to attempts to commit crimes

(1) A person who attempts to commit a crime by any means shall not be acquitted on the grounds that, by reason of the imperfection or other condition of the means, or by reason of the circumstances under which they are used, or by reason of any circumstances affecting the person against whom, or the thing in respect of which the crime is intended to be committed, or by reason of the absence of such person or thing, the crime could not be committed according to his or her intent.

(2) Whoever attempts to commit a crime shall, if the attempt is frustrated by reason only of accident or of circumstances or events independent of his or her will, be deemed guilty of an attempt in the first degree, and shall, except as in this Code otherwise expressly provided, be punishable in the same manner as if the crime had been completed.

(3) Whoever is guilty of an attempt other than an attempt in the first degree shall, except as in this Code otherwise expressly provided, be liable to any kind of punishment to which he would have been liable if the crime had been completed; but the Court shall mitigate the punishment according to the circumstances of the case.

(4) Where any act amounts to a complete crime, as defined by any provision of this Code, and is also an attempt to commit some other crime, a person who is guilty of it shall be liable to be convicted and punished either under such provision or under this section.

(5) Any provision of this Code with respect to intent, exemption, justification, or extenuation, or any other matter in the case of any act, shall apply with the necessary modifications, to the case of an attempt to do that act.

(6) The question whether an act done or omitted with intent to commit a crime is or is not only preparation for the commission of that crime, and too remote to constitute an attempt to commit, is a question of law.


44. Preparation for committing crime

Whoever prepares or supplies, or has in his or her possession, custody, or control, or in the possession, custody, or control of any other person on his or her behalf, any instruments, materials, or means, with a purpose that such instruments, materials, or means, may be used by him or by any other person, in committing any forgery, or any crime relating to coin, shall be liable to punishment in like manner as if he or she had attempted to commit that crime; and any such instruments, materials, or means shall be forfeited and applied as the Court directs.

''TITLE XI, Miscellaneous Matters, Special Provisions as to Certain Charges, 58. Case of full offence charged, attempt proved''

Where the complete commission of the offence charged is not proved, but the evidence establishes an attempt to commit the offence, the accused may be convicted of this attempt, and punished accordingly:

Provided that, after a conviction for the attempt, the person so convicted shall not be liable to be tried again for the offence which he or she was charged with committing.

''TITLE XI, Miscellaneous Matters, Special Provisions as to Certain Charges, 60.Case of full offence charged, part proved''

Provided that on a count charging murder the Court after the expiration of two hours from the end of the Judge’s summing up, may receive the verdict of ten jurors as the verdict of the jury if they return a verdict according to the evidence, convicting the accused of manslaughter or of any other offence less than murder of which they are entitled by law to convict him or her.

4. Extradition and related matters

(1) There shall be deemed to be included—

(a)
in the list of extradition crimes contained in Schedule I to the Extradition Act, 1870, of England; and

(b)
among the descriptions of offences listed in the Schedule to the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1870,
the offence of genocide and (so far as not so included by virtue of either of those Acts) an attempt, a conspiracy, and a direct and public incitement, to commit genocide.

4. Extradition and related matters

(2) For the purposes of the Acts mentioned in subsection (1) and the Extradition Act, 1873, of England, no offence which, if committed in Grenada, would be punishable as an offence of genocide or as an attempt, conspiracy or incitement to commit genocide, shall be regarded as an offence of a political character, and no proceedings in respect of such an offence shall be regarded as a criminal matter of a political character.