Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 649

649 Arrest of judgment

(1) A person convicted of an indictable offence, whether on the person’s plea of guilty or otherwise, may at any time before sentence move that judgment be arrested on the ground that the indictment does not disclose any offence.

(2) Upon the hearing of the motion the court may allow any such amendments of the indictment as it might have allowed before verdict.

(3) The court may either hear and determine the motion forthwith or may reserve the question of law for the consideration of the Court of Appeal as hereinafter provided.