The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

204 SS. 650-654 CRIMINAL CODE
Upon the hearing of the motion the Court may allow any such
amendments of the indictment as it might have allowed before verdict.
The Court may either hear and determine the motion forthwith or
may reserve the question of law for the consideration of the Court of
Criminal Appeal as hereinafter provided.
As amended by Act of 1913, 4 Geo. 5 No. 23, s. 2 (2).
650. Sentence. If a motion to arrest the judgment is not made or is
dismissed, the Court may either pass sentence upon the offender forthwith
or may discharge him on his recognizance, as hereinbe€ore provided,
conditioned that he shall appear and receive judgment at some future
Sittings of the Court, or when called upon by notice in the prescribed
form.
If the trial was had in a Circuit Court, the recognizance may, in the
discretion of the Court, be conditioned to appear and receive judgment
before the Supreme Court at some fixed future time, or when called
upon by notice in the prescribed form.
If sentence is not passed forthwith, any Judge of the Court may at
any subsequent sitting of the Court at which the offender is present pass
sentence upon him.
If an offender (including any offender called upon by notice in the
prescribed form to appear and receive judgment in respect of D portion
bf his sentence suspended under any provision of this Code) does not
appear at the required time and place any Judge of the Court may
estreat the offender’s recognizance and the recognizance of his bail, if
any, and such Judge may issue a warrant to arrest the said offender
and to bring him before a Judge of the Court and thereupon such offender
may be arrested and brought before the Supreme Court or any Circuit
Court or any District Court, as the case may be.
The Court may, before passing sentence, receive such evidence as it
thinks fit in order to inform itself as to the sentence proper to be passed.
As amended by Act of 1948, 12 Geo. 6 No. 48, s. 11; Act of 1961, 10 Eliz.
2 No. 11, s. 33.
651. (Repealed.)
Repealed by Criminal Cade Amendment Act of 1922, 13 Geo. 5 No. 2, s. 3
(xviii ) .
652. (Repealed.)
Repeaied by Criminal Code Amendment Act of 1922, 13 Gm. 5 No. 2, s. 3
(xviii).
653. (Repealed.)
(xviii ) .
Repealed by Criminal Code Amendment Act of 1922, 13 Cm. 5 No. 2, s. 3
. When an offender is sentenced to solitary con-
finement, the Court is required to give directions in the sentence as to
the confinement, and may direct that the offender be kept in, solitary
confinement, but not in darkness, for any portion or portions of the
term of his imprisonment, whether it is with or without hard labour, not
exceeding one month at any one time, and not exceeding three months
in any one year.