8.
of the 30° April for a correct account
the remarks I made
I have re:
of
in giving my
57 11. Modehouse,
decision.
Police Magistrate
It was
not within
my knowledge... when I committed the prisoners that the bare fact of committal in
d
as
itself itself constituted
conclusive argument against the prisoners, prima facie case being
I imagined from a Magistrate's point of view, capable of consisting of every degree of probability
from that of absolute certainty to that,
attenuated almost to the vanishing point,
and only committed as was the case-
in this instance from deference to the
higher...
tribunal
from
as
I thought
the
...
the final decision
Case
would more
on
the merits of
more properly
Precisely the same
adopted by the magistrate
case last
Come
169
Course
was
9.
the
the magistrate in a rendition when the magistrate
year,
committed the prisoner, but expressed his
doubts
он
the evidence
case the prisoner was
and
/
in that
discharged be the present instance however, although
the reasons for doubting the evidence:
are
quite
ad
strong and could not be
stronger, the prisoners are to be handed
over.
I have not
word to
say against
the decision of His Excellency the Administrator
to hand the prisoners
over to the Chinese
Government, but I would respectfully submit that for the Government first to inform
the
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