Section 327 of Criminal Procedure Code CAP 75: Power to reserve questions arising in the course of the trial
(1) When a person has, in a trial before the High Court, been convicted of anoffence, the judge may reserve and refer for the decision of a court consisting of two or more judges of the High Court any question which has arisen in the course of the trial, and the determination of which would affect the event of the trial.
(2) If the judge reserves any such question, the person convicted shall, pending the decision thereon, be remanded to prison or be admitted to bail; and the High Court may review the case, or such part thereof as may be necessary, and finally determine the question, and thereupon may alter the sentence passed by the trial judge and pass such judgment or order as the High Court may think fit.
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(1) Save as is in this Part provided—
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(2) The...
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