must decide a case

evidence as

by the given before him

Besides, the magistrate

in stating that

Leung You

if

the witness

f

were convicted

perjury, it would vitiate the

whole

down a

of

the evidence, lags proposition which

is not supported by any

law.

One part of the man's evidence

may be perfectly true and still

he

may

not

speak

the truth

on some other point; the

point

On

which he may

falsely

may

have

nothing to do with the

real facts of

the case,

there is

410

and

a rule which

states that because a

witness

falsely

on

one

point

the

whole

evidence even


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of the other

witnesses is to be rejected. Any

decision of the Magistrate given

on such a principle would be

certainly revised

on

appeal to

The

Supreme Court. The Magistrate should carefully consider whether those parts of

the evidence as to which perjury

is alleged, are material, whether Leung You may not be speaking the truth as to what occurred

in the house robbed

if he is speaking falsely

even

as to

what happened to him two

or three

years before.

Is there anything which directly contradicts the material parts of his evidence and is this contradiction supported

by

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