[AS AMENDED BY THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCOTTISH BILLS.]

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Clause.

1. Right of appeal by persons convicted on indictment. 2. Determination of appeals in ordinary cases.

3. Powers of Court in special cases.

4. Time for appealing.

5. Judges notes and report to be furnished on appeal. 6. Supplemental powers of Court.

7.

Right of appellant to be present.

8.

Expenses of appeal.

9. Admission of appellant to bail, and custody when

attending Court.

10. Summary determination of frivolous appeals, &c. 11. Shorthand notes of trial.

12. Quorum procedure and sitting of the Court, &c. 13. Sentence in Sheriff Court not to be suspended.

14. Powers which may be exercised by a judge of the

(Scotland). [H.L.]

A

BILL

[AS AMENDED BY THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON
SCOTTISH BILLS]

INTITULED

An Act to amend the law of Scotland relating to A.D. 1926. appeal in criminal cases tried on indictment.

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty,

Bby 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, 5 as follows:

1. A person convicted on indictment may appeal Right of under this Act to the High Court of Justiciary (herein- appeal by after in this Act referred to as the Court)—

persons convicted

ment.

(a) against his conviction on any ground of appeal, on indict-
which involves a question of law alone; and
(b) with the leave of the Court or upon the certi-
ficate of the judge who presided at the trial
that it is a fit case for appeal, against his con-
viction on any ground of appeal which involves
a question of fact alone or a question of mixed
law and fact or on any other ground which
appears to the Court or to the judge to be a
sufficient ground of appeal;

(c) with the leave of the Court against the sentence
passed on his conviction unless the sentence is
one fixed by law; Provided that a person
sentenced to preventive detention within the
meaning of the Prevention of Crime Act, 1908,
may appeal to the Court against such sentence
without the leave of the Court.