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In the matter of an Appeal by Chung
Chi Cheung to His Majesty in Council
from a judgment of the Full Court of
Hong Kong.
Notes for Instructions.
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1.
At 5.30 a.m. on the 11th January, 1937, the "Cheong
Keng", an armed Customs' cruiser in the service of the
Chinese Maritime Customs of the Republic of China, lying
at Sam Mun, Bias Bay, in Chinese territory, weighed anchor
and sailed for Hong Kong.
2. At about 7.30 a.m. when in British waters, as the
vessel was under way between a group of islands known as
the "Ninepins", and the channel called "Futaumun Pass",
leading to the entrance to Hong Kong harbour, the appellant,
Chung Chi Cheung, an officers' cabin boy, shot and killed
the Captain of the cruiser, Douglas Lorne Campbell, a
British subject, shot and seriously wounded the Chief Officer,
Chiu Cheung Koch, and finally shot himself in an attempt to
commit suicide.
3. The facts, which are not in dispute, sufficiently
appear in the trial judge's notes of evidence, a copy of
which will be found amongst the documents transmitted to
Messrs. Reid Sharman & Co., of 36 Bedford Row, by Messrs.
Hall Brutton & Co., the Solicitors for the appellant in
Hong Kong for the purpose of printing the record herein,
and in the depositions taken at the extradition proceedings,
the depositions taken at the committal proceedings and the
trial judge's summing up, certified copies of which
respectively were forwarded to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies by the Governor of Hong Kong, as enclosures to
his despatch No. 340 of 1938.
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