CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2] — Page 157

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Enclosure 3.

Hon. Colonial Secretary,

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REC2 Read 6 FEB 13)

1. In further reply to your recent communication as to

the position in the case in which the Sepoy Ibrahim was charged

with the murder of Subedar Ali Shafa I now beg to inform you that,

as I always anticipated, the matter has at last been brought to a

conclusion against the prisoner so far as the Courts here are

concerned.

2. You will recollect that in my last communication

dealing with this matter I mentioned that the Full Court had re-

-served certain points for decision but had not at the date of my

writing given its judgment. On Monday the 9th. instant it decided,

as I thought it would, against the prisoner.

3. Sentence was however deferred as Mr. Jenkin who

appeared for the prisoner intimated that he proposed to apply for

a writ of habeas corpus and for leave to appeal to the Privy

Council. The Court fixed the 16th. instant for the hearing of

these applications. Yesterday, accordingly, they came on. The

application for habeas corpus (which I thought was an absurd application) the Court dismissed. The Chief Justice then proposed to pass sentence of death on the prisoner but Mr. Jenkin then took

(what was to my mind an equally untenable course) the procedure of

moving to arrest the judgment: this motion the Court also rejected

and the prisoner was then duly sentenced to death.

4. With regard to the question of appeal to the Privy

Council I pointed out to the Court that I did not think that in a Criminal case the Court had any power to grant any leave to appeal when, as in this case, the application to appeal is in forma pauperis. With my latter contention the Court entirely agrees: with the former, which is in this case really academic, I think it also agrees. The only possibility now is for the prisoner's legal representatives to apply to the Privy Council for special leave to appeal. This they have declared their intention of doing and accordingly the Chief Justice has in sentencing the prisoner

ordered that the sentence should not be carried into effect until

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