CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE ACT (4) In an indictment, summons or charge in respect of the theft of anything whatsoever let to hire to the offender, the thing may be described as the property of the person who actually let it to hire. (5) In an indictment, summons or charge against a person employed by the State regarding an offence committed in respect of anything which came into his possession by virtue of his employment, the thing in question may be described as the property of the State. [Subsection amended by s. 33 of Act No. 5 of 2014 and s. 49 of Act No. 2 of 2016] (6) In an indictment, summons or charge regarding an offence committed in respect of anything in the occupation or under the management of any public officer, the thing may be described as belonging to such officer without naming him. (7) In an indictment, summons or charge regarding an offence committed in respect of any property, movable or immovable, whereof any body corporate has by law the management, control or custody, the property may be described as belonging to such body corporate. (8) In an indictment, summons or charge regarding an offence in respect of any property, if it is uncertain to which of two or more persons the property belonged at the time when the offence was committed, the property may be described as being the property of one or other of those persons, naming each of them, but without specifying which of them, and the indictment, summons or charge shall be sustained, so far as regards the allegation of ownership, upon proof that at the time when the offence was committed the property belonged to one or other of those persons without ascertaining which of them. (9) In an indictment, summons or charge in respect of the theft of any property, if the property was not in the physical possession of the owner thereof at the time when the theft was committed, but was in the physical possession of another person who had the custody thereof on behalf of the owner, it shall be sufficient to allege that the property was in the lawful custody or under the lawful control of that other person. (10) In an indictment, summons or charge in which any trade mark or forged trade mark is intended to be mentioned, it shall be sufficient, without further description and without any copy or facsimile, to state that such trade mark or forged trade mark is a trade mark or forged trade mark. (11) In an indictment, summons or charge for housebreaking or for entering any house or premises with intent to commit an offence, whether the charge is made under the Criminal Law Code or any other enactment, the indictment, summons or charge may either state the offence which it is alleged the accused intended to commit or may aver an intent to commit an offence to the prosecutor unknown. [Subsection as amended by s. 28 of Act No. 9 of 2006] (12) In an indictment, summons or charge for robbing or theft from any grave, whether in a cemetery or burial place or not, it shall not be necessary to allege that any dead body or portion thereof or anything whatever in the grave is the property of any person. 152 Companies, firms and partnerships may be named in indictments by name, style or title (1) In every case in which it is necessary in an indictment, summons or charge to name any company, firm or partnership, it shall be sufficient to state the name of the company or the style or title of the firm or partnership, without naming any of the officers or shareholders of the company or any of the partners in the firm or partnership and an individual trading under the style or title of a firm may be described by such style or title. (2) It shall be sufficient where two or more persons not partners are joint owners of property to name one of such persons, adding the words “and another” or “and others”, as the case may be, and to state that the property belonged to the person so named and another or others, as the case may be. 72