South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts285B—Conviction on plea of guilty of offence other than that charged
Where a person arraigned on an information pleads not guilty of an offence
charged in the information but guilty of some other offence of which he might
be found guilty upon trial for the offence charged, and the plea of guilty is
accepted by the prosecution, then (whether or not the two offences are
separately charged in distinct counts)—
(a) the
person may be convicted on the plea of guilty and his conviction shall operate
as an acquittal of the offence charged; and
(b) if
he has been placed in the charge of the jury, the jury shall be discharged
without being required to give a verdict (unless the trial is to continue in
respect of further counts that are unaffected by the plea); and
(c) he
shall be liable to be punished for the offence of which he has been convicted
in the same manner as if he had been found guilty of the offence upon trial
for the offence charged.