PART IV
SPEEDY TRIALS ON GUILTY CONFESSIONS
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(4) Plea by accused committed for sentence.
A person who has been committed for sentence may plead autrefois acquit, autrefois convict, pardon, or such special plea as he would be permitted to plead according to the law in force in England on 2nd November 1978, and in such case unless the accused and the prosecutor and the Judge consent to the issue being tried by the Judge without a jury, the Judge shall postpone the case for trial by a jury as provided in subsection (3).
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