M: Vype's warrant was issued on a certain day in January 1860, intended to state that the crime of Mr Mom was committed in the previous November; the wound in date might or might not have been fatal.
The order of 23th January 1860 gives M. Alcock power to inflict fine or imprisonment, whereas Mr Alcock added imprisonment to fine. This also was not argued. It will be seen that amidst this series of imputed errors, the one on which the Sentence was actually quashed was the really executable, for neither Mr May nor the Magistracy Clerk could know of an order in Council which had never been promulgated by the Government and the Government could not...