Subject.
JUDICIAL-continued.
SENTENCES-continued.
79
Naming of place of confinement in the sentence
Illegal sentence, Trinidad
--
Sentence of High Commissioner's Court, Western Pacific,
on man tried for conspiracy to murder....
Question of validity, murder having taken place before the Order in Council of 1877 was proclaimed
Persons charged at Jamaica with Murder of Man
unknown.
Date.
Vol.
No.
10 June 1869
4 May 1877
II.
III. 134
570
28 Aug. 1878
III.
182
116
Validity of conviction in consequence of the absence
of due proof of the corpus delicti.
24 Jan. 1879
III.
189
29 Jan. 1904
VI.
212
Decision of Supreme Court, Western Australia :
In civil action
4 April 1879
III.
198
Punishment for Larceny in the Bahamas
14 June 1887
IV..
888
93
31 March 1904
VI.
219
Illegal decision of Police Magistrate, St. Helena :
In fining a person for selling porter
Court Martial Sentencs in Trooper, South African
Cimstabulary.
27 Oct. 1888
IV.
130
Validity of
22 Feb. 1902
VI.
128
*
29 June 1904
V1.
228
United States citizen con‹icted of Murder:
Whether stay of execution of death sentence should be granted at the request of the United States Government.
25 Feb. 1902
VI.
128A
18 Aug. 1904
28 Mar. 1905
3 Aug. 1906
VI.
VII.
VII.
232
Whether sentence ought to be commuted
Sentence for disinterment and violation of a female
21 March 1902
VI.
137
***
corpise.
8
According to English law
1 Dec. 1903
VI
208
41
Sentence in Northern Nigeria in master of a vessel for
rash act causing the death of a native.
Whether further proceedings could be taken on
account of the inadequacy of.
11 March 1902
VI.
132
20 Dec. 1906
VII.
57
Confirmation of death sentence, E. Africa:
II July 1907
VIL
77
See also CONVICTS.
Whether valid if signed by only two of the Judges
of the Court of Appeal. PARDON.
12 Nov. 1907
VII.
88
SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.
1 Oct. 1869
30 July 1874
II.
603
III.
34
Power of Governor of Sierra Leone to issue Special Com-
mission of Oyer and Terminer.
27 March 1878
ILI.
164
4 March 1898
V.
165
5 April 1898 13 Oct. 1903
V. 166
VI.
203
23 Sept. 1869
II.
599
WRITS.
19 May 1860
I.
17
Power of the Governor of Barbados to issue Special Commission for the trial of persons concerned in the disturbances.
SPECIAL TRIBUNALS.
Special tribunal for trial for piracy at Hong Kong
Creation of special tribunal by the High Commissioner
of Cyprus for the trial of a cadi.
Special tribunal for the trial of Newfoundland Bank
Directors.
30 Aug. 1870
6 May 1876
II.
III.
659
92
18 March 1867
II.
461
4 Jan. 1881
III.
242
1 March 1897
V.
131
JUDICIAL—continued.
PETITIONS OF RIGHT-continued.
Petition of Mr. A. W. Harvey and others, Newfinindland. In respect of the termination of their sub-lease of a
portion of St. John's Dry Dock.
Petition of Faiz Mahomet.
As regards the refusal of the Western Australian Government to allow him to import camels. Whether petitioner entitled to proceed by Petition of Right, although he neglected to take proceed- ings under the Crown Suits Act, 1898, until too late, and whether fat should be granted. Petition of Mr. Davies with reference to Land Grant,
Dominica.
Clain not very meritorions, but the Governor should endorse his consent on the statement of claim as provided by Section 370 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1876 80 that the case may be tried. Petition of Mr. J. O. Fournier of Montreal with
reference to certain lands.
Fiat not to be issued without further enquiry. Suggestion that the Ljent.-Governor of Quebec should be asked to make enquiries as to the dealings of the Government in regard to the lands in question.
Remedy against the Crown when Petition of Right_not
available.
Opinion that if remedy by Petition of Right existed before the passing of the Quebec Statute of 1883, the right of the Crown to fiat such petition would still exist independently of the Statute.
Dominion Act 38 Vict. c. 12.
Whether it applies to Quebec
Petition of Mears. George Wells & Co., Western Australia.
Whether fat should be granted
Gibraltar Petitions.
The Governor has no power to fiat petitions. In default of legislation conferring such power, the Secretary of State for the Colonies should present petitions to the Sovereign for his fat.
Petition of Mr. Dagnino. Form of endorsement.
Procedure.
Petition of Fremantle Municipality claiming varius fines and penalties incurred under the Police Act, 1892.
Whether fiat should be granted
PLACE OF TRIAL.
Transfer of trial in scattling case from Gibraltar to
England.
Offences committed on the high seas are to be tried at the place at which the offender has been apprehended. Power of Consular officer to send to British Colony for trial person charged with offence under the Slave Trade Act, 1873.
Case of murder in the Pitcairn Island
Proposal to remit to a Colony for trial actions brought in
England for wrongs committed in that Colony.
PRIVATE PROSECUTION.
Right to institute and conduct a private prosecution at
Hone Kong.
SENTENCES.
Court Martial Sentence at Capetown on soldier of Bengal Horse Artillery who had received his discharge at the time when the offence was committed, and who had been granted a passage to England. Sentence for Frathilent Insolvency at Melbourne.
Illegality of sentence of 18 months' imprisoninent on each of the first four counts of the information.
3 July 1867
II.
470
Habeas Corpus, &c.
Issue of Writs by English Courte running in Upper
Canada.
Draft Imperial Bill to prevent the issue in England
of Write running in the Colonies.
Power of the Supreme Court of the Straite Settle- .ments on Habeas Corpus to quash an Order of
Banishment.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885
25 June 1861
I.
72
4 Nov. 1861
I.
87
6 July 1899
219
6
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
Subject.
80
JUDICIAL continued.
WRITS-continued.
Writ against a Constable.
Refusal of Magistrate at the Falkland Islands to Ingue a Writ against a constable who arrested a servant of the Falkland Islands Company and thereby caused loss to the Company.
Writ of Error.
Propriety of action of Attorney-General of Western Australla in withholding writ of error applied for by Council for a convict.
Date.
Vol.
No.