REPORTS OF CASES, ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE Court of Criminal Appeal, FROM MICHAELMAS TERM, 1848, TO MICHAELMAS TERM, 1851. BY LEOFRIC TEMPLE, OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQ. AND GEORGE MEW, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ. BARRISTERS-AT-LAW. VOL. I. LONDON: S. SWEET, 1, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET, 1852. APPENDIX. STATUTE 11 & 12 VICT. c. 78. An Act for the further Administration of the Criminal Law. [31st August, 1848.] I. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide a better mode than that now in use of deciding any difficult question of law which may arise in criminal trials in any court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, and to make further amendments in the administration of the criminal law: Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That when any person shall have been convicted of any treason, felony, or misdemeanor, before any court of oyer and terminer or gaol delivery, or Court of Quarter Sessions, the judge, or commissioners, or justices of the peace, before whom the case shall have been tried, may in his or their discretion reserve any questions of law which shall have arisen on the trial for the consideration of the Justices of either Bench and Barons of the Exchequer, and thereupon shall have authority to respite execution of the judgment on such conviction, or postpone the judgment until such question shall have been considered and decided as he or they may think fit; and in either case, the Court in its discretion shall commit the person convicted to prison, or shall take a recognizance of bail with one or two sufficient sureties, and in such sum as the Court shall think fit conditioned to appear, at such time or times as the Court shall direct, and receive judgment, or to render himself in execution, as the case may be. II. And be it enacted, That the judge or commissioner, or the Court of Quarter Sessions, shall thereupon state, in a case signed Questions of law may be reserved at sessions of the peace for consideration of Judges. |