Section 227: On charge of an offence conviction as accessory after the fact to that or connected offence may follow

Where a defendant is charged with an offence and the evidence establishes that he is an accessory after the fact to that offence or to some other offence of which a defendant charged with the first-mentioned offence may be convicted by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act, he may be convicted as an accessory after the fact to that offence or that other offence, as the case may be, and be punished accordingly.