Pleading in Misdemeanour Act, 1819

Court may allow further time to plead.

2. Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said respective courts, or for any judge of the same respectively, upon sufficient cause shewn for that purpose, to allow further time for such defendant to plead or demur to such indictment or information.

[S. 3 (providing that persons committed to custody or held to bail for misdemeanors twenty days before sessions shall plead to indictment, &c., unless a writ of certiorari be delivered before the jury is sworn), rep. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 100. s. 26.]