Abetment of suicide of child or insane person.

If any person under eighteen years of age, any insane person, any delirious person, any idiot, or any person in a state of intoxication, commits suicide, whoever abets the commission of such suicide, shall be punished with death or 1 [imprisonment for life], or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

¹ Subs. by Act 26 of 1955, s. 117 and the Sch., for “transportation for life” (w.e.f. 1 -1-1956).