Section 151: Differently constituted Court – Evidence—The appellant was convicted
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
151. Differently constituted Court – Evidence—The appellant was convicted
of offences by the Intermediate Court and appealed inter alia on the ground
that the Magistrate who convicted him had not heard all the evidence.
HELD in a criminal trial the evidence of material witnesses and formal
witnesses (if evidence is contested) must all be heard by the Magistrate.
Curpen v R (1987).