In the Privy Council.
ON APPEAL
FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG: CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
CHENG KWOK-YAU F. THE KING. Petitioner.
V.
The King.
Respitent.
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
THE HUMBLE PETITION of the above-named CHENG
KWOK-YAU,
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SHEWETH that
1. Your Petitioner desires to obtain special leave to appeal from the judgment of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong given on the 12th September 1932 which dismissed your Petitioner's appeal and confirmed the conviction herein. The Court was comprised of the Chief Justice Sir Joseph Horsford Kemp (who presided at the trial before the Jury) and Wood J., that your Petitioner was sentenced to death on the 14th September 1932 but such sentence was respited until the 14th of December in order that your Petitioner might present this Petition.
2. On the 8th day of July 1932 your Petitioner was committed by E. I. Wynne Jones Esq. a Police Magistrate of the Central Magistracy of 20 Hong Kong for trial at the July Criminal Sessions 1932, before the Supreme Court of Hong Kong on a charge that "he the said Cheng Kwok-yau on divers dates between the 19th and the 24th days of March 1932, at Victoria and Kowloon in this Colony feloniously did counsel, procure and command Wong Nam Sheung to do and commit a certain felony by him committed on the 24th day of March 1932, that is to say feloniously to murder Fung Him alias George Fung."
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3. That on the 22nd day of July 1932 an indictment was preferred by the Attorney-General of the said Colony of Hong Kong against your Petitioner charging him with the following offence :-
MURDER.
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE.
PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE.
Cheng Kwok-yau alias Cheng Wan on divers dates between the 23rd February 1932 and the 24th day of March 1932 (both
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