Section 318Part 12 — Attempts and Conspiracies to Commit Crimes and Accessories After the Fact
Attempt defined
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When a person intending to commit an offence begins to put that person's intention into execution by means adapted to its fulfilment and manifests that person's intention by some overt act but does not fulfil that person's intention to such an extent as to commit the offence, that person is deemed to attempt to commit the offence.
It is immaterial, except so far as regards punishment, whether the offender does all that is necessary on the offender's part for completing the commission of the offence, or whether the fulfilment of the offender's intention is prevented by circumstances independent of the offender's will, or whether the offender desists of the offender's own volition from the further prosecution of the offender's intention.
It is immaterial that by reason of circumstances not known to the offender it is impossible to commit the offence.
Defined Terms
attemptovert act