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anyone. The other two were comparatively trivial and hardly
one of them was on the outside and the
worth mentioning
other on the inner side of the right arm.
You will have to consider whether when you are lying in bed and someone attacks you, you are likely accidentally
either to strike such shrewd violent blows as to inflict that sort of wound or to find an aggressor so complacent as to go out of his way to impale himself on your knife in such an
unpleasant and deadly fashion.
That is the fourth story. Today he has told us yet a
fifth.
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"I am a simple soldier and I am bullied by this fellow who is now dead. I had been out early that morning to make
water. I went out to the south gate of the hut and I came back. I had of course to pass the deceased man's bunk and he jumped
up from it and attacked me. He beat me. He hit me with his
closed fist on the left chest. I cannot tell you how many blows he struck me, he hammered at me and I picked up something, don't know what it was, I have not the faintest idea, it might have been a knife or a piece of wood or anything. What was
apparently at the deceased's bunk, but immediately after that he changed and said "No, I did not use it there, I got away, I got to my own bunk and it was there the whole trouble happened and to protect myself I suppose I used the knife, but really you cannot hold me responsible in law for anything I did
because I got such a beating that I was unconscious. I have
no recollection, I was incapable of forming any intent at the
time.
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And that is his story today and again one of the first conclusions that anyone would come to about it is that it
necessarily involves your throwing overboard the story told by Lo Yee and Ha Kam Sing about the chase along the corridor, to a point near the accused's bed, but no further the point where Wong Ka Yan fell down in his agony.