CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 293

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the same judgment

judgment was given by the same

judges, as if the prosecution had originally

been by indictment.

In Stankie on Slander Vol 2, page 273

the law is thus laid down.

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Informations are of two rescriptions;

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either filed by the littorney Guueral

the immediate officer of the frown,

by the Master of the brown Office upon

the complaint of a private individual.

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are

or

the clefects of those informations which

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filed by the Attorney Geveral, are such Offences as manifestly tend to excite and

produce

some

what cases it

great public mischief; but in. be necesary to call in

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aid this proces

is a matter resting in the

"disuction of that officer, whose duty it is,

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as the immediate Agent of the brown, to

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bring under the

cognizance of the bount all

Offences and abuses which are

"dangerous a nature as

necessary.

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of so

to render immediate

Criminal Informations

page 9 intrusted the Attorney General

it is stated that."the law has

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behalf

of the brown with a discretionary power of

filing informations." "He has the right to

exhibit

ex officio

one ex

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responsibility

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to admit that in practice this

course of proceding is beldom pursued in England because, unless there be some

special reason for

of an

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information, instead indictment, the Attorney General