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described herself in Court as a widow. She
had got married with much
ceremony
in the interval between her leaving sheK O
and the trial.
On the whole I cannot accept
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the
theory that it
was an
and that it was a
with
attempt to rob,
marder committed
very great premeditation and
without the least provocation
on
the
part of the murdered woman.
of the only two persons who witnessed the occurrence, that is the accused and the
witness Chumamui I
an
disposed to give greater credence to the statement of
story
the accused. He told the same
from the
very beginning. She varied her story at each examination, and, as we
now know, undoubtedly committed perjury on more than one material point.
Instead of being an attempt to rob,
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for which there is not a particle of reliable evidence it seems more like a
quarrel arising out of jealousy, a fierce quarrel in which the prisoner
was struck first. The witness, Chun amui, admits that the prisoner received a push before he drew the chopper from under his jacket. But what the witness calls a
push the prisoner says was a
was a violent
blow on the head which stunned him
and rendered him so confused that the first blow he made in return struck the
child.
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Whilst attaching great weight
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