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he said, when he was arrested; only when he learned that the tins contained uras,
Mr. Musso asked the Court, in judging the emissions of the defendants to look at them, not in the light of the foreigner er in the light of the well-educated class of Chinese, but in the light of uneducated Chinese who probably did not know visora India was, unless the prosecution sould prove that the socused had guilty knowledge of these arat, he submitted that it was the duty of the Court to aequit the prisoners, If they had been going to muggle these things, they would not have made reseptacles, that could have been detested by a child, They would have taken a log of wood, taken out the middle, slipped these tine in the inside, and then closed up the end and paint it over.
Dr. Hinckley, in addressing the Court, said his client could not have been aware of the arms until the tin was broken, and immediately he became aware of them he communicated with his principal, so that knowledge and the abandonment of the set ware simultaneous,
Mr. Newnan said it had been proved that the accused were in possession of muitions of war, Therefore, technically, an offence had been committed – there was no "knowingly" in the question, in the question of the gana gas, Mr. Newmail subriáttéď that they could not do other than at least enter a conviction
against the men for this reason - that if the Court believed the
whele of the story, then they could not claim that they had no
guilty knowledge, the one after some time en the Friday and the
ether on the day of arrest. Speaking of guilty knowledge, Mr.
Howman said that if a man wilfully refused, particularly in
forgery cases, to believe or to see, as that he could, on the
fase of it, give an explanation to the Court, then he could be
held by the Court to have had guilty knowledge,
Counsel furthe:
submitted