Local Court (Criminal Procedure) Act 1928
142Supreme Court to sentence accordingly unless plea withdrawn
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142 Supreme Court to sentence accordingly unless plea withdrawn Subject to section 141, upon the appearance for sentence of a defendant committed or granted bail to appear for sentence, the Supreme Court may pass sentence or otherwise deal with the defendant as if he had been arraigned and had pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court, and all the same consequences shall ensue as if he had been so arraigned and had so pleaded guilty: Provided that if, for any reason, it appears to the Supreme Court that the plea of guilty should be withdrawn, the presiding Supreme Court Judge may advise the person to withdraw that plea, and, if the plea be thereupon withdrawn, the defendant shall be deemed to have been committed for trial, and may forthwith, or after adjournment, and notwithstanding that no information has been filed in the Supreme Court, be arraigned, and the case shall proceed in the usual course.