R v Willie Boon [1912] ZATPD 149 (20 December 1912)

Criminal procedure .-Trial .-Conversion into preparatory
emamination.-Subseqitent to verdict but before
sentence.--Ordinance l of 1903, sec. 65.

A magistrate can only convert c-riniinal proceedings before him into a preparatory examination, in term
of sec. 65 of Ordinance l of 1903, during the course
of the proceedings, and not after he has given his
verdict and before sentence.