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74: Punishment for treason or attempted treason
or “This law explains how you might be punished if you try to hurt or betray your country.”
You could also call this:

“You need more than one person's evidence to prove someone committed treason, except in special cases.”

You can’t be found guilty of treason based on the testimony of just one witness. The evidence from that single witness must be supported by other evidence that implicates you. This rule doesn’t apply to a specific type of treason described in section 73, paragraph (a).

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or “If you help someone who did treason or don't tell the police about treason plans, you could go to jail.”
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Part 5 Crimes against public order
Treason and other crimes against the Sovereign and the State

75Evidence of treason

  1. No one shall be convicted of treason on the evidence of 1 witness only, unless the evidence of that witness is corroborated in some material particular by evidence implicating the defendant.

  2. Nothing in subsection (1) shall apply to treason within the meaning of paragraph (a) of section 73.

Compare
  • 1908 No 32 s 96(1)
  • Criminal Code (1954) s 47(2) (Canada)
Notes
  • Section 75(1): amended, on , by section 6 of the Crimes Amendment Act (No 4) 2011 (2011 No 85).