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Remarks by the Attorney General
on Mr. H. H. Nelson's letter.
This was a misdemeanour.
private prosecution
If the prosecutor wished for a special jury, his proper course was to apply to the Court under Section 17 of Ordinance 11 of 1861. The power vested in the Attorney General by section 1 of Ordinance 8 of 1872, which is the section under which it was desired that I should act, is clearly not intended to be used in the case of a private prosecution for misdemeanour.
Even if it were, there was nothing in the circumstances making it specially desirable for me to use it in M. Nelson's case, nor did W. Nelson allege any ground why I should use it. On