Continuing Offences.

According to some authorities, there are two types of continuing offences: (a) crimes in which some acts material and essential to the crime occur in one area or province and some in another, (b) crimes in which all of the elements required for its completion may have occurred in a single place, but the violation of the law is deemed to be continuing due to the very nature of the offence committed. Examples of the first class are malversation and abduction, and libel is an example of the second category when a libellous matter is published or circulated from one place to another. The crime of jailbreak may also be included in the second class. The act of the escaped prisoner is a continuous or series of acts initiated by a single impulse and operated by an uninterruptible force, regardless of how long it lasts. It may not be correct to say that once a convict has escaped from the place of his confinement, the crime is consummated because as long as he continues to evade the service of his sentence, he is deemed to continue committing the crime, and may be arrested without a warrant, at any location where he may be found.