Bahamas

Chapter 91 - Criminal Procedure Code

CHAPTER 91

PART VIII
PROCEDURE IN TRIALS BEFORE MAGISTRATES' COURTS

204. (1) At the close of the evidence in support of the charge, if it appears to the court that a case is made out against the accused person sufficiently to require him to make a defence, the court shall again explain the substance of the charge to the accused and shall inform him that he has a right to give evidence on oath from the witness box and that, if he does so, he will be liable to cross-examination, or to make a statement not on oath from the dock, in which case he will not be liable to cross- examination; and the court shall ask him whether he has any witnesses to examine or other evidence to adduce in his defence, and shall then hear the accused and his witnesses (if any).

Keywords

Fair trial standards
Rights during trial - examine witnesses
Rights during trial - raise defences
Rights during trial - unsworn oral or written statement in defence



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