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In what you have said today you have tried to re-open the issue between yourself and the Crown. I put it to the Jury that if they found that statement was a sham, intended to mislead people who might be proposing to give credit to the Bank, then there were grounds to find you guilty of the false statement. Their værdiot weans that they have found this is not a mere matter of accounting or bookkeeping, but it was a false statement placed on the public record for public information.
The principal object of the @rown in these proceedings was to have the principle affirmed that persons, commercial mei, who were taking advantage of the Companies Ordinance and the privileges thereof, must also be held bound to comply strictly and honestly with the provisions of the ùrdinance, which are designed to protect the public who deal with them.
You have been indicted in the hope that you yourself would realise the gravity of the charge in which you have been conveioted, and it is my duty to pass sentence which, it is hoped, will deter you from doing anything of the kind again.
It was your ambition to appear as a Director of a Corporation, which had a gigantic financial stability and you knew, no one knew better, that the Instone Banking Corporation was nothing of the kinü.
It is a painful duty to pass sentence upon The sentence
a member of the Bar and of this Court. which I pass upon you, is that you be "Imprisoned for four months without hard labour"
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