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echarge against
invectigate a charge
prisoner accused of
Av
indictable offence within the jurisdiction.
3. Under ordinary circum.
stances, and where a
Magistrate
is invectigating a
a case of an indictable offence within the jurisdiction, his object is not
to determine whether
the
accused is guilty, but whether
there is sufficient to put the
accused on his trial, or whether
the evidence raises a strong
or probable presumption of
the guilt of the accused.
4.
is proceeding for the purpose
of such a case as that now
being considered, and acting
under the special provisions
of the Sonsong Ordinance 1850, his object is to determine whether there is "probable cause for believing that the accused has committed the crime with which he is charged.
In the present instance, the Magistrate having taken the evidence has committed the prisoners to await the Governor's orders; and it must be taken that he has done so because, upon the whole, it appears to him that there is "probable cause for believing