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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH AUGUST, 1879.

497

SUPREME COURT,

11th August, 1879.

後間斷日二 列案起十 於情所九月

年

Summary of cases tried at the Supreme Court during the Criminal Sessions which commenced on the 18th day of July, 1879.

Tung A-ts'oi, aged 20 years, of Héung-shan, farmer, and Ch'an A-kin aged 13 years, of San-úi, were found guilty of having received certain goods knowing them to have been stolen. Tung A-ts'oi was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour and to be kept in solitary con- finement for periods of fourteen days at a time the whole not to exceed two months in one year.

Ch'an A-kin, was sentenced to two years' impri-

sonment with hard labour and to be kept in solitary confinement for periods of seven days at

a time the whole not to exceed one month in each year.

As to the second prisoner some mo-

dification of his punishment is under considera- tion on account of his youth.

Tang Ying-sau, aged 26 years, of San-on, hawker, and Ch'an A-pong, aged 27 years, of Tung-kún, boatman, were found guilty of pirati-

cally attacking and seizing a junk called the “Kam Ü-hing” while on the high seas off the

Island of Shá-mún and stealing therefrom money to the amount of $187, seventeen anchors, three muskets, and other miscellaneous articles. The prisoners were each sentenced to three years' penal servitude.

Fung A-yan, aged 32 years, of Hongkong, boatman, was found guilty of neglecting to pro- vide his infant child with the necessaries of life.

The prisoner set up as his defence that his wife was unfaithful to him and that the child was not his. The Chief Justice. told the prisoner that it was he who had been unfaithful, and that the charge he had made against his wife and which he had failed to prove and which the Chief Justice thought to be false, aggravated his offence very much, and he sentenced him to two years' imprisonment with hard labour and to pay a fine of $50 to the Queen and to be further imprisoned until such fine is paid for a term not exceeding one year.

The prisoner's mother, a woman named

Kwang A-múi, was called for the defence and she swore that she had not been present at the ceremony of the naming of the child, although the evidence for the prosecution shewed that she had been there. At the conclusion of the case the Chief Justice directed this woman to be indicted for perjury. The charge of perjury against this woman will be tried at the next Criminal Sessions.

Cheng Pik-shán, of Héung-shan, Rent Collect- or, aged 50 years, was convicted of applying to his own use $2.333 which he had received for and ought to have paid over to his master

P'áng-yun. It is just the same as if he took the

money out of his master's safe. He was sen- tenced to three years' penal servitude.

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另現歲歲

議次坐陳

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