the excess
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Saint
that a Rule Nisi Prosequi will be entered in each of the
pending
cases at the ensuing
Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court, and that,
in the case in which Judgment on demurrer has been delivered
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further steps with a view to appeal will be taken, for Reasons which will be stated to the Court upon the
occasion of entering the Rule Nisi Prosequi at the
October Sessions.
I have the honour to be
Sir
Your
Obedient servant
(22) Edward S. Pochard
Acting Attorney General
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Annex No. 2. 454
In reference to the case of Regina v. Saint, I have to
state to the Court that
The
Governor has been informed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies that H.M. Government are not disposed to prosecute the appeal to the Privy Council from the Judgment of Chief Justice Quain, as they
are advised
by the Law Officers of the Crown that the ordinary course of procedure
might have been adopted in that case, and that there was no necessity, under the circumstances, to resort to the particular Form of Crown Prosecution initiated by the then Acting Attorney General – H.M. Government therefore do not consider the