z
ainst these
-
evidence, found Guilty whereupon Sentence of death. was recorded against Prisoners respectively - instead.
(as I appréhended should have been the case) sentence of Death being passed on them.
3.
au
On the 24th Instant Executive Council was held in pursuance of the 35th Section of The Queen's Instructions to the Governor of Honghong, under date 6th April 1843, at which Chief
Justice Hulme was
then
preaent. The case of these men was taken into consideration, and
requested to state which had indeed
the dredge
the
reasons
him not to
was ne
pass sentenc
Sentence of
death on the Prisoners who had-
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been most clearly convicted of an atrocious Murder, and for which crime in the opinion of the Council, they ought to suffer the extreme Penalty of the Law:- The Judge replied to
former
the
effect,
that
on a
occasion when he had centenaid certain, men to death, the sentence had not been carried out, but been commuted to Transportation for Life, against
his
Opinion, and that under there circumstances he had considered it would not have been evenhanded Justice had he parsed sentence of death on the Prisoners that he therefore
recommended there
men to
Mercy, and that
if
the Conneil
saw fit, it might act against
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