In the above case the jury, on Saturday afternoon, after hearing the counsel and the summing up of the Chief Justice, returned a unanimous verdict of. murder against the prisoner Chou Tai-yun, and of not guilty azeinst Wang Chun-shun. 'The Chief Justice sentenced the former to death, and the Istter prisoner was tried again' on Monday on a charge of manslaughter before a fresh jury, by whom he was acquitted. It seems from what I have heard—the evidence has not been published—that the prisoner Chan stabbed the deceased man with a knife and admitted having done s0; the other man, though in his company, was unarmed, and there was nothing to show that he entertained any idea of shedding blood.
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