Lancashire hearing By therefore the Magistrate or Court is authorised to put to the prisoner questions not, "and torogate any question's which at may "express option given to the prisoner to answer or not and consult.
"statutory declaration making "prisoner says cordeme. know whether Juries 322 354 inclusive exuption It is India any what the I do not under suchons are the rule or the unnecessary for me to suggest whether the Indian Code is or not an improvement on the English Law or otherwise.
It is an entire Code professedly applicable to India alone; and con to us that to Framer and Lord Macauley I confess my inability to criticise it procedure but this I Dilarang Framand the Penal Code hot then the part of one of an entirely new Code with an all its adaptability of parts to the whole.
The third and last question is whether Ordinance No 3 of 1872 ought to be law in Hong Kong. Seker now now altered by Ordinance 492 has since 1688 been English Law; & as part of the same Law it has remained since 1844 up to this time unchanged in Hong Kong. It is I believe unquestioned rule that every law of long existing should be retained unless and until a necessity for change has been clearly substantiated.
I disagree with the Acting General Mr. Hayllar when as Attorney General he says "must be armed with the power of interrogating prisoners". As to the practice in England authority agrees with him but he adds "lamentable failures of justice sometimes this Colony under an unelastic criminal procedure it is not to be wondered at where asserts but he no one has ever asserted it is certain that no one has proved that there have been failures of Justice been asserted by the "daily press" that Ahdoola Moussa and W...