Criminal Code Act 1899 - Queensland Legislation

Schedule 1 The Criminal CodePart 8 ProcedureChapter 62 Trial—adjournment—pleas— practice[s 601]entered, and the trial is to proceed as in other cases when thatplea is pleaded.(5) A person who has been committed for sentence may plead anyof the other pleas mentioned in section 598.601 Standing mute(1) If an accused person, on being called upon to plead to anindictment, will not plead or answer directly to the indictment,the court may, if it thinks fit, order a plea of not guilty to beentered on behalf of the accused person.(2) A plea so entered has the same effect as if it had been actuallypleaded.602 Plea of autrefois convict or autrefois acquitIn a plea that the accused person has already been convictedor acquitted, it is sufficient to state that the accused person hasbeen lawfully convicted or acquitted, as the case may be, ofthe offence charged in the indictment, or of the other offenceof which the person alleges that the person has been convictedor acquitted, and, in the latter case, to describe the offence byany term by which it is commonly known.603 Trial on plea to the jurisdictionUpon a plea to the jurisdiction of the court, the court is toproceed to satisfy itself in such manner and upon suchevidence as it thinks fit, whether it has jurisdiction or not, andmay ascertain the fact by the verdict of a jury or otherwise.604 Trial by jury(1) Subject to chapter division 9A and subsection (2), if theaccused person pleads any plea or pleas other than the plea ofguilty, a plea of autrefois acquit or autrefois convict or a pleato the jurisdiction of the court, the person is by such plea,Page 404 Current as at 1 December 2014