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

234 SS. 691-6597 CRIMINAL CODE
691. Time and Place of Trial. When the accused person pleads any plea,
or when a plea of not guilty is filed for him by the prosecutor, either
party may apply to a Judge to appoint the time and place of trial, of
which notice is to be given to the accused person.
for Prosecutor on Demurrer. If the accused
does not plead any plea, and judgment is given
against him on demurrer, he is required to plead to the i~ormation
within such time as the Court or a Judge may allow. If he makes
default in doing so, the same proceedings may be taken as if he had made
default in pleading in the first instance.
Heading as amended by Statute Law Revision Act of 1908, 8 Edw. 7
No. 18. s. 5.
&. If judgment of conviction is entered
against the accused person for want of a plea, he is required to attend
to receive the judgment of the Court at a time and place to be appointed
by a Judge. If he does not so attend, any justice may issue his warrant
to arrest him and bring him before the Court to receive judgment.
694. Costs of Defence, In either of the following cases, that is to say,-
(1) If the accused person pleads to the information, and is not
brought to trial within a year after filing his plea; or
(2) If a Crown Law Qfficer informs the Court that he will not
further proceed on the information; or
(3) If the accused person is acquitted upon trial;
the Court, or the Judge before whom the trial, if any, is had, may award
costs to the accused person.
695. Practice to be appllie ation. When an indictment
is presented in the Supreme Court by a Crown Law Officer against any
person who has not been committed for trial for the offence charged in
the indictment, the Crown may proceed thereon in the manner prescribed
in this Chapter with respect to informations filed by private prosecutors,
except that no security shall be required.
CHAPTER LXXI-MIS c E L LAN E ous PROVISION s
s of Jury to be given to Person C
son. When a person is to be tried for the crime of
treason, or of becoming an accessory after the fact to treason, or of
failing when he knows that any person intends to commit treason, to give
information thereof with all reasonable despatch to a justice or use other
reasonable endeavours to prevent the commission of the crime, a list
of the jurors, with their Christian names and su~ames written at full
length, and with the true place of abode and description of every juror,
is required to be given to him, in the presence of two credible witnesses,
ten days before he is called upon to plead to the indictment.
697. Court may Dired ce n P~~SSO~S to be ~ ~ for Perjnry. ~
If it appears to any Court that any person has been guilty of perjury
in any testimony given before it, the Court may commit him to take his
trial for such perjury before any Court of competent jurisdiction in the
same manner as if he had been charged before a justice with the same
perjury, and sufficient evidence had been given against him.
A person so committed may be admitted to bail in the same
manner as if he had been committed for trial by a justice.
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