CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8] — Page 474

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guilt,

We

as

-rejest altogether entirely insufficient what the Chinese desire us to -

accept as such, viz,

a

charge made by a responsible -Chinese Official, and we - are not unfrequently. dissatisfied with evidence which the Chinese consider

as

Nor

absolutely conclusive.

on this question of

evidence has our

aum

-practice been guided

guided in

. The past by any very clear principle

principle, it having been

apparently doubtful whether . The amount and character of evidence required to justify

extradition is such as (1) to justify a Magistrate in

England in sending before a Jury,

a case

or (2) to justify

a Grand Jury in finding a :true Bill, or (3) to enable a Jury to convict; each of these views, as I gather from

the papers, having been held

at

one

time

another

by

more

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