constantly reminding caller the Admiralty Commission: This Catter
bring quick
a distinct affair.)
auc
Lond hey in conect in supposing that Grand Juries in the colony confined to these piracy cases. By ordinance No 1 of 1845 piracy cases were attached in the Supreme Court. But in as much as the Piracy Commission
directs trials the according to the law of England (and must do so in extreme cases the Acts which empower such Commissions to issue) of course
Grand Juries remain for this purpose.
In the present case the Chief Justice's charge seems
to me
extremely
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wrong if it is correctly reported – but I have my
little faith in short reports
of a charge on points of law, orally delivered. If it be correct which, it seems to me almost equivalent to a direction of the Grand Jury not to find a true bill,
Refuse in so deep
and I am
surprised at their proceeding.
I think for other reasons
Which
I will not detail a conviction
of
the
prisoner is unlikely, & that the failure of
the prosecution is mainly attributable
to the evasion of
the important
witness for which the police are partly
to blame
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All the result is
mortifying nonetheless.
Jan 3.