Chapter IV: Preparatory proceedings for assize sessions

When, as a result of a severance of proceedings, an appeal or any other cause, the assize court is seised only of the referral to it of one or more defendants, solely for an offence connected with a crime, it shall rule without the assistance of jurors.

The President may, either of his own motion or at the request of the Public Prosecutor, order the postponement to a later session of cases which do not appear to him to be fit to be tried during the session on whose roll they are entered.