CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2] — Page 260

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for the purposes of surrender to the foreign country: and in

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that the trial takes place, and the guilt or innocence of

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the accused is established. See Hawkins, J., in In re Castioni

(1891), 1 Q.B. 149, at page 161.

"The doctrine of res judicata or of former jeopardy or of

autrefois acquit is in each particular quite applicable to this method of preliminary inquiry.

"Had the magistrate thought the first evidence laid before him

insufficient and declined to interfere, or dismissed the

accused, that would be no bar to his (or another magistrate)

taking up the matter de novo upon better or Lore convincing

evidence. Such is unquestionably the rule in the ordinary

methods of procedure before magistrates in the case of indict-

-able offences, and to this practice is assimilated extraditi-

-on proceedings by the provisions of the statute.

Section 9, R.S.C. 1886, c. 142.

"This was recognised and affirmed as to the procedure in ex-

-tradition by a strong court in Reg. v. Lorton, (1866) 19

U. C. C. P. 9 the effect of which decision has not been

interfered with by any provision of the Criminal Code. It does

not affect the legal result if the magistrate assumes to

commit illegally or without evidence, and has been set right

by the court upon habeas corpus, by the discharge of the accused from custody. That gets rid of the illegal commitment but not of the underlying charge, which way again be investi-

-gated for the purpose of extradition.

"This very question has indeed been passed upon by ir. Justice Wurtele in Ex p. Seitz, (1899) 8 Quebec Q.B. 392. I adopt his language as pertinent to this case: 'When a prisoner is dis- -charged on habeas corpus, it is necessary, in order for such discharge to protect him from a subsequent prosecution for the same offence, that the same state of facts should exist with respect to both the adjudication under the writ of habear corpus and the subsequent prosecution' (page 397). *The accused may be arrested and imprisoned again for the same

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