The question of whether or an attorney should be summoned for contempt of court came up in the Appellate Division of the Provisional Court on February 1, ina remanded hearing of the to allegced instigators of the Keswick Road crime who have already been sentenced to death but appealed a life sentence in the murder of a tailor which was one of a long list of charges preferred against them.
"he hearing was short and occupied Dut x few merenis of the court's time. At the previo learing the Police Solicitor, Mr. B. T. Bryan od -the court he had been told that the counsel for thy defence had made personal overtures to Nanking to the Kiangs Provincial authorities that a retail of the case should be Mr. sai for the appellants informed me that he has forwarded a petition to the authorities requesting them has promised my Interpreter copy of this petition but so far 1 hav not received it. If this is true Seems to me high time something was done and my application is that Mr. Yih Fah-kong, counsel for the defence, be summoned to show caus why he should not be dealt with, 'The appeal was, thereupon, missed and the Senior Consul'
Deputy, Br. SI, Burdett, wrote an official note into the records.
Mr. Burdett said: "There is reason to believe that counsel for tha defence has petitioned the Kiangeu Provincial Government to return. this ease for xchenring. The police prosecuting solicitor has requested the Court to summon My. Yih to show cause why he should not be punished if this is true.
"FI reserve my right to take a: tion in this matter after consult, tion with the learned Judges of the Court of Appeal."
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