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Persons prosecuted in the Court of King’s Bench at Westminster or Dublin for misdemeanors shall not be permitted to imparle, but must plead or demur; and in default thereof judgment may be entered.
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[1.] Where any person shall be prosecuted in his Majesty’s Court of King’s Bench at Westminster, or in his Majesty’s Court of King’s Bench in Dublin respectively, for any misdemeanor, either by information or by indictment there found or removed into the same respective courts, and shall appear in term time in either of the said courts respectively in person, to answer to such indictment or information, such defendant upon being charged therewith shall not be permitted to imparle to a following term but shall be required to plead or demur thereto within four days from the time of his or her appearance; and in default of his or her pleading or demurring within four days as aforesaid, judgment may be entered against the defendant for want of a plea; and in case such defendant shall appear to such indictment or information by his or her clerk or attorney in court, it shall not be lawful for such defendant to imparle to a following term, but a rule requiring such defendant to plead may forthwith be given, and a plea or demurrer to such indictment or information enforced, or judgment by default entered thereupon, in the same manner as might have been done before the passing of this Act in cases where the defendant had appeared to such indictment or information by his or her clerk in court or attorney in a previous term.
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