Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 668C

668C Appeal from arrest of judgment

(1) When the court of trial before which a person is convicted on indictment arrests judgment, the court is required, on the application of counsel for the prosecution, to reserve a case for the consideration of the Court as hereinbefore provided.

(2) On the hearing of the case the Court may affirm or reverse the order arresting judgment.

(3) If the order is reversed, the Court is to direct that judgment be pronounced upon the offender, and the offender is to be ordered to appear at such time and place as the Court may direct to receive judgment, and any justice may issue a warrant for the arrest of the offender.

(4) An offender so arrested may be granted bail by order of the Court or a judge thereof, which may be made at the time when the order directing judgment to be pronounced is made, or afterwards.