Public mischief

140. (1) Every one commits public mischief who, with intent to mislead, causes a peace officer to enter on or continue an investigation by

1. making a false statement that accuses some other person of having committed an offence;
2. doing anything intended to cause some other person to be suspected of having committed an offence that the other person has not committed, or to divert suspicion from himself;
3. reporting that an offence has been committed when it has not been committed; or
4. reporting or in any other way making it known or causing it to be made known that he or some other person has died when he or that other person has not died.

Punishment

(2) Every one who commits public mischief

1. is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; or
2. is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 140; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 19.

Definitions

118. In this Part,

"evidence" or "statement" means an assertion of fact, opinion, belief or knowledge, whether material or not and whether admissible or not;

Sufficiency of count charging perjury, etc.

585. No count that charges

1. perjury,
2. the making of a false oath or a false statement,
3. fabricating evidence, or
4. procuring the commission of an offence mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c),

is insufficient by reason only that it does not state the nature of the authority of the tribunal before which the oath or statement was taken or made, or the subject of the inquiry, or the words used or the evidence fabricated, or that it does not expressly negative the truth of the words used.

R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 585; 1992, c. 1, s. 60(F).