CO129-550-6 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- request review of trial and exercise of prerogative of mercy... 22-11-1934 - 21-12-1934 — Page 5

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A.

It is very unusual for the Secretary of

State to interfere with the Governor's prerogative

of mercy, and I cannot remember its ever being

done in a murder case. We should not be in a

position to express any sort of view until we had

seen the actual proceedings in the Court and had

been made acquainted with any extra-juridical con-

siderations which the Governor may have before him.

The delay in getting all that would be great. I

am bound to say I deprecate interference in a case

like this, and I would suggest that it would be

safer simply to tell the Governor that these

representations have been received, leaving him

to take the responsibility for exercising the

discretion which has been vested in him.

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