Section 27: Joining counts before Supreme Court

27. Joining counts before Supreme Court (1) In an information filed in the Supreme Court and containing a charge of larceny, it shall be lawful to add a count, or several counts, for knowingly receiving the whole or part of the stolen property or for being found, without sufficient excuse or justification, in possession of the whole or part of the property, and the jury may return a verdict of guilty either of larceny or of knowingly receiving the whole or part of the stolen property or of being found without sufficient excuse or justification, in possession of the whole or part of the property. (2) Where the information has been preferred against 2 or more persons, the jury may find all or any of those persons guilty either of larceny or of knowingly receiving the whole or part of the stolen property or of being found without sufficient excuse or justification in possession of the whole or part of the property, or to find some of the persons guilty of larceny, and the others guilty of knowingly receiving the whole or part of the stolen property, or of being found, without sufficient excuse or justification, in possession of the whole or part of the property. (3) Subsections (1) and (2) shall apply to an information filed under section 31, and section 125 shall apply to the alternative counts for knowingly receiving the whole or part of the stolen property, or for being found, without sufficient excuse or justification, in possession of the whole or part of the property.