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The Court sentences the defendant Toshio Shibata
to two months penal servitude and a fine of 100 yen;
the defendants Mantaro Asada, Shunzo Kitagawa, and
Shinichi Masuda to penal servitude for one month and 15
days and a fine of 200 yen; the defendant Shokichi Kurusu
to penal servitude for two months; the defendant Kenji
Kitabatake to penal servitude for three months and a fine
of 200 yen; the defendant Shigeru Imatomi to penal servitude
for one month and a fine of 100 yen, and the defendants
Mutsumi Yamada, Teizo Kitayama, and Kuichi Motomura to penal
servitude for one month in each case.
Whether judgment definitive or appeal being made to a
higher court.
The defendants Toshio Shibata, Mantaro Asada,
Shunzo Kitagawa, Shokichi Kurusu, Shinichi Masuda, and
Kenji Kitabatake are appealing to a higher court.
Judgment is definitive in the case of the defendants,
Kuichi Motomura, Shigeru Imatomi, Mutsumi Yamada and
Teizo Kitayama.
Offences committed
No.1.
The defendant Toshio Shibata;
(1) In conspiracy with Min Tai Yu living in Shanghai
in the Republic of China shipped on the s. s. "Nagasaki Maru"
at Nagasaki 47 tins (each containing 700 grammes) of
anaesthetic diacetyle morphine hydrochloride on three
occasions during the period between about March 24th, 1938,
and May 14th, 1938, without having obtained a permit from
the Home Minister and without obtaining an export permit
from the Customs, and exported them to Shanghai.
(2) /