BURCHELLS.
A.W.BURCHELL.
B.M.C.TRENCH.
H.H. MARSHALL.
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Sir,
Re
3/11/38.
5. The Sanctuary,
35. 46
Westminster, S.W.1.
2nd November
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Chung Chi Cheung V.
The King.
We beg to report that we have this morning received
a letter from the Appellant's London Solicitors enclosing copy
of a letter from the Solicitors in Hong Kong acting on the
Appellant's behalf, and they have asked us to communicate
with your Department thereon.
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They ask that, in the event of the appeal being
dismissed by the Judicial Committee the question of the Appellant's reprieve should be very carefully considered by
the Governor of Hong Kong on the following grounds, namely:
that there was clearly some element of insanity in the case; that the prisoner was arrested on the 26th March 1937, convicted and sentenced to death on the 24th August 1937 and
has since been detained in the condemned cell of the Hong Kong Prisons and has accordingly suffered very great mental
anguish for many months. They further point out that the
Appellant has, perhaps unknowingly, been the cause of an
interesting and important point of international jurisdiction
being raised before the Supreme Appeal Court.
The Under Secretary of State.
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