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Section 3 abolishes the necessity of calling upon the
accused in cases of felony after a verdict of guilty has been
returned by the jury. Hotions in arrest of judgment are
of necessity made upon technical grounds. If any such grounds are open to a defended prisoner his counsel may be trusted to bring the forward at the proper time, and an
undefended prisoner is extremely unlikely to discover any
such grounds. The section still leaves it open to the
accused to move in arrest of judgment after verdict and before
sentence.
6.
In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency
the Governor may properly aasent in the name of His Majesty
and on His behalf.
Attorney General.