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of its own;
but not the debtor's prison.
The Court is unprovided with cells for the temporary custody of offenders.
When
a prisoner is convicted he is
circumstances conveyed
conveyed
under ordinary circumstances immediately to the Criminal Jail
by a Constable or the Court Usher, and afterwards detained there by "Warrant addressed to the jailor. The preparation of the warrant necessarily occupies
more or less time according
The
occupies
according to the nature of the offence charged, and the prisoner until it's completion lies in jail by force only of the presumptive authority derived from
minutes of the
of the judgment signed by the Magistrate, an abstract of which judgment accompanies the warrant.
It is said to be questionable whether
this removal from the Court to the Jail without a written warrant is
legal.
There could
be no
question
of the legality of confining
a
prisoner by verbal order during the interval between conviction and
the
completion of the warrant if cells were
attached to the court, even were these
cells twice as distant as the jail wards now used for the purpose.
Reporting these circumstances for the information of His Excellency The Governor, I have the honor to respectfully suggest that the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown be taken on the point.
in apparent uncertainty, and if the legality of the present practice be found doubtful that suitable...