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entirely able to put these very fleeting events into exact chronological order. There, gentlemen, you have your Crown

Case.

If you accept that, what is the law applicable ?

There is one further feature of the evidence which it is essential I should remind you of and that is the medical evidence.

It is difficult to over exaggerate the importance of the testimony of the doctor because, as you will remember, he speaks not to one wound but to four not to one serious wound and three trivial wounds but to four serious wounds, three of them very serious indeed. They were all incised wounds. They were all of the type of wound that would have been inflicted by such a weapon as we have had described by its owner Ng Kui. They were all wounds which, according to Dr. Lien, require a considerable amount of force. They were wounds each of which required a separate blow from the assailant, so that you hage four blows struck, four blows at least struck with a considerable degree of force, one on the back of the neck, a savage blow - one on the right cheek, a relatively minor one on the left arm and another very savage blow across the left thigh.

Gentlemen,if you accept the story told by witnesses for the prosecution then there are only two possibilities. One is that irritated beyond control, that is beyond his control, not beyond the control of a normal and reasonable man, - irritated beyond his degree of control, by the reiterated requests for money and by the fresh threats of Leung Ki, stall further irritated at the loss of face occasioned by his being tapped on the shoulder by a younger man than himself, the