CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8] — Page 160

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He would have been calculated is a lus to prejudice the perjury, altogether interable, and for making the statement that the conviction of the witnesses would vitiate the whole of the proceedings is also inadmissible.

Because his own mind was practically made up, and that apparently forget that the main part of the cordevice was against Leung before him, and there were ample grounds for him to come to his conclusion. What he meant by alluding to my apparent forgetfulness I cannot say.

All I asked of the Magistrate was to deal with the case before him. If his mind was made up then what was the use of waiting for an indefinite time for the decision he calls on what, in one place, a side issue?

From the other passages it may be gathered that Mr. Wodehouse's mind was made up that no case prima facie had been proved; yet, on the 29th April he committed the accused to await the Governor's order.

The last proof that Mr. Wodehouse was excluding evidence of my powers is that I ordered the Magistrate to enter a nolle prosequi in a preliminary enquiry - which the other Magistrate was holding. This is not correct. I ordered Mr. Meek, the Magistrate who was holding the enquiry, to...

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He would have been calculated is a lus to prejudice the perjury, altogether interable, and for making the statement that the conviction of the witnesses would vitiate the whole of the proceedings is also inadmissible. Because his own mind was practically made up, and that apparently forget that the main part of the cordevice was against Leung before him, and there were ample grounds for him to come to his conclusion. What he meant by alluding to my apparent forgetfulness I cannot say. All I asked of the Magistrate was to deal with the case before him. If his mind was made up then what was the use of waiting for an indefinite time for the decision he calls on what, in one place, a side issue? From the other passages it may be gathered that Mr. Wodehouse's mind was made up that no case prima facie had been proved; yet, on the 29th April he committed the accused to await the Governor's order. The last proof that Mr. Wodehouse was excluding evidence of my powers is that I ordered the Magistrate to enter a nolle prosequi in a preliminary enquiry - which the other Magistrate was holding. This is not correct. I ordered Mr. Meek, the Magistrate who was holding the enquiry, to...
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