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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
AUGUST 1934 CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
Rex Vs. Ng Loi-yuen alias Ng Yick-lam alias Ng Yick San.
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Mr. J. A. Fraser for the Crown:
Mr. R.C.H. Lim Counsel for Defence Instructed by Messrs.wilkinson & Grist.
3.10 p.m.,7th September, 1934.
CHIEF JUSTICE' SUMMING UP.
Gentlemen of the Jury:
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You have been both painstaking and patient with what has been a long trial and it would be a very poor return for
I don't think your servicee if I kept you longer than I need. it will be necessary to take much time this afternoon because the various aspects of the case have been so thoroughly traversed by the two speeches that you have just listened to, but there is a definite duty cast upon me, which is to suggest to you gentlemen, who are the judges of fact in this case, just where the evidence weighs for or against the accused and what the various points in his favour or against him are.
Before I proceed to do that there are just two things I want to say to you. One is a little warning quite unnecessary perhaps, but none the worse for being given. I give it because you have been deprived by her ill-health of the advantage of hearing the evidence of Mary Pine, the only one of the children involved in this terrible incident on the 22nd June who survives and who is old enough to give evidence. I give it gentlemen, because learned Counsel for the Crown very naturally did not know that Mary Pine would not be well enough to give evidence when making his opening speech, and he made certain statements which are based on evidence which he thought Mary Pine was going to give. have to ask you to ignore these statements entirely, to ignor e anything that you may have read or heard about this case before
Now, I
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