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such summary trial may, if dissatisfied with the said determina- tion as being erroneous in point of law, appeal to the Full Court.

94.-(1) When a person desires to appeal to the Full Court under Articles 92 or 93 he shall give notice of his Appeal, or of his application for leave to appeal, to the Court against whose judgment or sentence he desires to appeal, in such manner as may be prescribed, within seven days of the date of his conviction or of the determination of an information or complaint.

(2) An appellant may, in such manner as may be prescribed, present his case and his argument in writing, and deliver the same to the Registrar of the Court before which the trial took place. The respondent may in like manner present his case and argument in writing, and deliver the same to the Registrar of the said Court.

(3) Such Court shall thereupon send under the seal of the Court to the Registrar of the Supreme Court the notice, the case, and the argument, if any, and a report by the Judge who pre- sided at the trial, together with such other papers and in such manner as may be prescribed.

(4) Where the trial took place before a Judge of the Supreme Court, sitting elsewhere than at Shanghai, the papers may be transmitted to the Registrar of the Supreme Court through the Provincial Court of the district.

95. Where notice is given under Article 94, the Court before which the trial was had may, as it thinks fit, either postpone judgment on the conviction or respite execution of the judgment, and either commit the person convicted to prison or take security for him to come up for judgment or to deliver himself for execu- tion of the judgment (as the case may require) at the appointed time and place.

96. An appellant shall not be entitled to be present at the hear- ing of an Appeal except by leave of the Full Court, or of the Court before which he was convicted.

97.-(1) Appeals under Articles 92 or 93 shall be heard anu determined by the Full Court.

(2) In the hearing and determination of such Appeals the Full Court shall, so far as circumstances admit, follow the practice of the Court of Criminal Appeal in England and the provisions con- tained in sections 1 (5), 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 (2), 14 (2) (3), 17, and 21 of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (7 Edw. VII, c. 23).

(3.) Provided that the Full Court shall not annul a conviction or sentence, or vary a sentence, on the ground--

(a) Of any objection which, if stated during the trial, might, in the opinion of the Court, have been properly met by amendment at the trial; or

(b) of any error in the summoning of the jury or the asses-

sors; or

(c) Of any person having served as a juryman or an assessor.

who was not qualified; or

(d) Of any objection to any person as a juryman or assessor which might have been raised before or at the trial; or

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