Where a defendant has entered an unequivocal plea of guilty in the Magistrates Court, s 222(2)(c) of the Justices Act 1886 (Qld) confines the appeal to sentence only, and a District Court judge on such an appeal has no jurisdiction to vacate the guilty plea. Any order doing so is ultra vires and liable to be set aside on appeal.
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