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lowed by death as a consequence, would render the perpetrator chargeable with homicide, is guilty of attempting suicide.

Sec. 230. Every person who willfully, in any manner, advises, encourages, abets or assists another person in taking his own life, is guilty of aiding suicide.

Sec. 231. Every person who willfully furnishes another person with any deadly weapon or poisonous drug, knowing that such person intends to use such weapon or drug in taking his own life, is guilty of aiding suicide, if such person thereafter employs such instrument or drug in taking his own life.

Sec. 232. Every person who willfully aids another in attempting to take his own life, in any manner which by the preceding sections would have amounted to aiding suicide if the person assisted had actually taken his own life, is guilty of aiding an attempt at suicide.

Sec. 233. It is no defense to a prosecution for aiding suicide, or aiding an attempt at suicide, that the person who committed or attempted to commit the suicide was not a person deemed capable of committing crime,

Sec. 234. Every person guilty of aiding suicide is punishable by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for not less than seven years.

Sec. 235. Every person guilty of attempting suicide, or of aiding an attempt at suicide, is punishable by imprisonment in the Territorial prison not exceeding two years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.

CHAPTER II.

HOMICIDE

Section 236. Homicide defined.

237. Different kinds of homicide.

238. What proof of death is required.

239. Petit treason abolished.

240. Effect of proof of a domestic or confidential relation.