Section 126Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)

Stealing cattle or killing with intent to steal

Whosoever—
steals any cattle, or
wilfully kills any cattle with intent to steal the carcass, or skin, or other part, of the cattle so killed,
shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

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