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aut as that for practical purposes, regards the prisoner's fate, and the responsibility in connexion therewith, the decision, though formally a decision as to probable guilt, is really a decision involving the consequences of a verdict quiety ca.co. may oruot
The of guilty in a capital case may be useful in considering the evidence:-
1. The defence arising upon the evidence put forward by Bishop Raimondi was partly that the prisoners did not do the acts charged as murder, and partly that these acts, if committed, did not amount to murder, but were in the nature of killing in self defence.
2. Of the witnesses examined for the defence four (4) were wives of prisoners. Strictly speaking, in as much as all the prisoners were included in one charge, these wives were not competent witnesses. But as the principle upon which wives are held incompetent to give evidence for their husbands or for persons charged in the same indictment is that they stand in the same position with respect to the advisibility of