The Weekly Law Reports
[1988] 2 WLR 382
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA
v.
NEWLAND
1987 Dec. 1;
3
Watkins L.J., Kenneth Jones and Leonard JJ.
Crime
— Indictment
— Breach of rules
— Two unrelated groups of counts in one indictment
— Order for separate trials of each group
— Whether proper
— Whether indictment invalid
— Whether proceedings after arraignment null
— Whether venire de novo to be ordered
—
Indictments Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 90), s. 5(3)
—
Indictment Rules 1971 (S.I. 1971 No. 1253 (L.31)), r. 9