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allowed appeal against conviction appeal or application appellant's application for leave attend certificate charged Clerk of Assize consider conviction or sentence counsel Court of Appeal Court of Criminal Court of Trial CRIMINAL APPEAL ACT Crown Cases Act custody Director of Public documents duly entitled examination exhibits final determination full Court furnish given Governor hearing Home Secretary indictable offence judgment leave to appeal legal aid Lord Alverstone Lord Chief Justice miscarriage of justice misdirection necessary notice of appeal Notice of Application notify payment penal servitude person convicted Petty Sessional Court Police present Prison Commissioners proceedings proper officer prosecutor Public Prosecutions purpose Quarter Sessions quash the conviction question of law recognizances Registrar restitution Rule 29 sentence passed shorthand note Shorthand Writer single judge solicitor substantial miscarriage supra sureties taken thereof think right tion transcript verdict of guilty Vict warrant witnesses
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Page 149 - The Court of Criminal Appeal on any such appeal against conviction shall allow the appeal if they think that the verdict of the jury should be set aside on the ground that it is unreasonable or cannot be supported having regard to the evidence, or that the judgment of the court...
Page 156 - ... on any ground of appeal which involves a question of fact alone, or a question of mixed law and fact, or...
Page 94 - Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of that other offence, the Court may, instead of allowing or dismissing the appeal, substitute for the verdict found by the jury a verdict of guilty of that other offence...
Page 161 - ... fide taken or received by transfer or delivery by some person or body corporate, for a just and valuable consideration, without any notice, or without any reasonable cause to suspect that the same had, by any felony or misdemeanor, been stolen, taken, obtained, extorted, embezzled, converted or disposed of, in such case the court shall not award or order the restitution of such security...
Page 156 - Acts mentioned in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule.
Page 152 - If the cause or matter requires any prolonged examination of documents or any scientific or local investigation which cannot in the opinion of the Court or a judge conveniently be made before a jury or conducted by the Court through its other ordinary officers ; or (c) If the question in dispute consists wholly or in part of matters of account...
Page 155 - Act shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat...
Page 203 - LM the sum of of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of...
Page 173 - Section 74 of The Offences Against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Viet. c.
Page 144 - If in any case the director of public prosecutions or the prosecutor or defendant obtains the certificate of the AttorneyGeneral that the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal involves a point of law of exceptional public importance, and that it is desirable in the public interest that a further appeal should be brought...