The State (Hunt) v O'Donovan
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1975 |
| Date | 01 January 1975 |
| Docket Number | [1972. |
| Court | Supreme Court |
(S.C.)
The State (Hunt)
and
O'Donovan
Appeal - Criminal law -Statutory right of appeal from court of limited jurisdiction - Procedural amendment of statute removing right inadvertently - Whether any right of appeal under Constitution - Equality before the law - Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No. 10), ss. 31, 63 - Criminal Procedure Act, 1967 (No.12), s. 13, sub-s. 2(b) - Constitution of Ireland, 1937, Articles 34, 40.
The prosecutor signed a plea of guilty to a charge that he had committed an indictable offence and the District Court sent him forward for sentence with that plea to the Circuit Court pursuant to s. 13, sub-s. 2(b), of the Criminal...
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