THE HONGI ́ONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH JUNE, 1865.
Judge shall have Power to prevent the Trial of different Felonies or Misdemeanors ether, if such Trial would be inexpedient, and in such Case he may order separate Records to be made up and separate Trials to be had.
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Jurisdiction over
8. In an Information for Felony or Misdemeanor committed on the High Seas or Foreign Parts the Allegation that the Party injured was at the Time of the Offence Offences on the ligh charged in the Peace of the Queen shall be a sufficient Allegation of the Jurisdiction of the Court to hear and determine the Case.
Sens, &c., how alleged.
9. Every Information, when so signed as aforesaid, shall be brought to the Office Information to he of the Registrar of the Supreme Court and shall be filed by him in the said Court.
filed by Registrar.
Information.
10. The Registrar or his Deputy shall indorse on, or annex to, every Information Notice of Trial on and every Copy delivered to the Sheriff for Service thereof a Notice of Trial which Notice shall specify the Court before which, and the particular Session and Time when, he will bring the Party to Trial on the said Information, and which shall be in the Form in Schedule (B) hereunto annexed, or as near thereto as may be.
Process, Copy of
Notice of Trial to be
11. The Crown Solicitor shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Sheriff a Copy of the Information with the Notice of Trial indorsed on the same or annexed Information and thereto; and if there are more Parties charged than one then as many Copies as there delivered to Sheriff. are Parties.
Information.
12. The Sheriff shall, as soon as may be, after having received a Copy or Copies Time and Mode of of the Information and Notice or Notices of Trial, and Five Days at least before the summoning Parties on Day therein specified for Trial, by himself or his Deputy or other Officer, deliver to the Party or Parties charged the said Copy or Copies and Notice or Notices, and explain to him or them the Nature and Exigency thereof; and when the same or any or either of them cannot be found he shall leave a Copy or Copies of the said Inforination and Notice or Notices of Trial with some one of his or their Household for him or them at his or their Dwelling-house or with some one of his or their Clerks for him or them at his or their Counting House or Place of Business, and if none such can be found, shall affix the said Copy or Copies and Notice or Notices to the Outer or Principal Door of his or their Dwelling-house.
Prisoner may be
13. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall prevent any Person in Custody at the Opening of or during any Criminal Session from being tried thereat, if tried at once. he shall express his Desire to be so tried and no special Objection be made thereto on the Part of the Crown.
Return of Service of
14. The Officer serving the Copy or Copies of the said Information and Notice or Notices shall forthwith transmit to the Registrar a Return of the Mode of Service Copy of Information, thereof.
Sce.
charged.
15. When it shall appear by the Return made by the Officer executing the same Proceedings on Non- that the Copy or Copies of the Information and Notice or Notices of Trial have been appearance of Party duly served in Manner hereinbefore provided and the Party or Parties charged on being thrice called on the Day appointed for the Trial does or do not appear, it shall be competent for the Prosecutor to move the Court, if the Party or Parties charged have been admitted to Bail, that he or they and his or their Sureties may be called upon their Recognizance or Recognizances and in Default of his or their Appearance that the same may be estreated; and it shall also be competent for the Prosecutor to apply to the Court for a Warrant for the Apprehension of the said Party or Parties.
cutor after Notice of
16. If the Prosecutor or his Attorney having given Notice of Trial shall not appear Proceedings on Non- in Court to prosecute or prefer the said Information before the Close of the Session of appearance of Prose- that Court before which he gave Notice of Trial, it shall be competent for the Party or Trial. Parties charged to move the Court to discharge him or them therefrom; and when he r they, or any other on his or their Behalf has or have been bound by Recognizance for his or their Appearance so to take his or their Trial then that the said Recognizance ay be discharged; and where the Information is at the Instance of a Private Party it shall also be competent to the Party or Parties charged to move the Court that the said Private Prosecutor or his Sureties shall be called on their Recognizance and in Default
his Appearance that the same may be estreated.
Attendance of Wit- messes on Criminal
17. The Subpoena or Process of the Court for procuring the Attendance of any Process for preuring Person on Behalf of the Crown who shall not have been bound by Recognizance to
pear before the said Court to give Evidence in any Criminal Case, shall be sued out Cases.
the Registrar's Office by the Crown Solicitor, or, where the Prosecution is at the