Incompetency in criminal cases

If on any trial for a criminal offence it appears to the presiding judge, after the accused person is given in charge to the jury, that true explanation of the evidence cannot by reason of the incompetence of any interpreter be made to such accused person, he shall not by reason thereof be entitled to be acquitted, but it shall be the duty of the presiding judge to discharge the jury from giving any verdict, and the accused person shall be liable to be again tried as if such first trial had not been commenced. oath.