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on fighting and the fight lasted 10 minutes and at last he sank to the ground outside the Faint Shop and I was very relieved to be rid of him and I carried on.
I threw away
the chopper and I went into No. 21 where I have the entre and put a clean suit of clothes" and it was not until some days later that he was arrested down at Wanchai.
Well, Gentlemen, I have already dealt with the defence of self-defence and I hope I have finally squashed any idea that that can possibly be raised. The defence of chance
medley is based on your acceptance, on your complete acceptance, despite all the evidence givenby the witnesses for the prosecution, of this thesis. There was a fight, not the striking of one blow that is not a fight but a continued deliberate intentional attack on the prisoner by
Leung Ki and an equal attempt by the accused man to resist
Leung Ki's attack. That is to say that there was a fight
a good melee and that when they began that they were on
equal terms. You will have to accept further that in the
course of that fight the prisoner was driven backwards and there without having any previous knowledge of any weapon that would hel him he, to his great satisfaction,
discovered the chopper and that there and then in a moment
of passion engendered by the continued fighting, he used that chopper and cut down Leung Ki. If you find that, gentlemen, that would be manslaughter and nothing less than
mans laughter.
Having
Of course the answer to that is that he did not.
picked up the weapon he allowed the fight to continue for a
long time afterwards and finally cut down Leung Ki. If you believe that gentlemen, if you believe that there really