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Your the Colonial legislature twe Formided (brolinance M. 14 of 1862, 1.15) "that" every defendant in custody at "the

-opening or during the sitting of the Sessions, shall and many "thereat, if is devirme, and no special * objection be poide there to on the part "of the broom —_ a provision which,

1st with the Regula Gieratis the 15 March 1847, ( 3. 41) havalways appeared to me, and, I believe, to the profession generally, to be applicable to Misdemeanants only. _ is right being by low recognized in a personelungat with and committed for felony, to

five days notice of trial. I linvever in that interpretations wrong and felous are

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above cited enactment, and, as such,

may, if so desirous, and in special "thjection be made thereto on the post- "the brnow", be tried at the Version

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at the opening where of they may happen to be in enstody, and that the expense and trouble to the broom, and the oppression to the prisoner, of another calendar puniths detrimer in gorth before trial, mery thus be

avoided.

Jaking this latter alternative now of the position of such a prismer, (atthingh clearly of opinion that it is

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a privmur charged with felmy is not a defendant within the meaning of the Regula Generalis and the bendinned I had for the first two persions after arrival here invisted supon bringing

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