Criminal Procedure Code · s 419

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s 419Finding of insanity or unfitness to plead

(1)

Where, on an appeal against conviction, the Court of Appeal is of opinion that -

(a)

the proper verdict would have been one of not guilty by reason of insanity; or

(3)

the case is not one where there should have been a verdict of acquittal, but that there should have been a finding that the accused person was under disability, the Court of Appeal shall make an order that the appellant be admitted to a prison or hospital as the Court of Appeal may direct.

(2)

On making an order under this section, the Court of Appeal may give such directions as it thinks fit for his detention pending his admission to a prison or hospital.