CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 259

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which, though it will avail little against the mischiefs to be dreaded from causes like those to which the poison in question may be attributed, will yet be found of great service in the hands of the well-intentioned and the competent:

In the present state of the law, the compassing or contriving the imprisonment of the community is not an indictable offence. Individual cases must be prosecuted and upon those the Crown prosecutor must proceed.

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It is true our choice is limited, yet further by the necessity of charging either an administering or an attempting to administer. I may be limited to the first: for such has been the judicial construction of the enactment with respect to the second, that it is really hard to say whether it is not become practically obsolete, although twenty years have not elapsed since the passing of that enactment.

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which, though it will avail little against the mischiefs to be dreaded from causes like those to which the poison in question may be attributed, will yet be found of great service in the hands of the well-intentioned and the competent: In the present state of the law, the compassing or contriving the imprisonment of the community is not an indictable offence. Individual cases must be prosecuted and upon those the Crown prosecutor must proceed. 257 It is true our choice is limited, yet further by the necessity of charging either an administering or an attempting to administer. I may be limited to the first: for such has been the judicial construction of the enactment with respect to the second, that it is really hard to say whether it is not become practically obsolete, although twenty years have not elapsed since the passing of that enactment.
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which, though it will avail

little against the mischiefs

to be

dreaded

from

Caused

like those to which the.

pordist in

question may

be attributed, will yet be

found of great service in the hands of the wellintentioned and the Competent :

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and

the law the compassing contriving" the imporisonment of the Community is not an indictable offence . Individual cases must be potrated and upon those the Crown

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prosecutor must proceed.

257

It is choice is limited, yet further by the newssity of

charging either an administering

that it is

or an attempting to administer . I may limited to the first : for

may even

Day

such has been the judicial

construction of the Ennetment with respect to the second, that it is really hard to pay

whether it is not become

-

already, although twenty have not clapsed since

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the passing of that enactment, practically obsolek .

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