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Retrial of acquicted fre
Mr. Rawlinson,-To ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether his attention has been called to the fact that two men named Li Shek Pang and Hung Loi were tried before the Chief Justice of Hong Kong, in January 1909, on an indictment for murder, and were acquitted on the charge of murder but convicted of manslaughter; that such conviction was quashed by the Full Court, on the 25th February 1909, on the ground of the misreception of evidence and the prisoners were discharged; that the Attorney General of Hong Kong thereupon announced his intention in court of preferring a fresh indictment for murder against both prisoners in respect of the charge which had formed the subject of the indictment their conviction on which had been quashed, and the prisoners were rearrested on leaving the court; upon what authority the prisoners were put upon their trial again on the charge of murder under the circumstances above stated; and whether he will take steps to prevent any further proceedings being taken in the matter and to secure the immediate release of the prisoners.
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