Before delivering sentence, the Magistrate said that in the ordinary way the ease would have gone to a Judge and jury. He had taken the burden of trying it summarily and ho found it a heavy burden, because the evidence so very nearly balanced. It was a fact that there was opium on the Kaho and it was wrongfully removed by foreigners and Chinese. The evidence for the prosecution was entirely based on identification and in this connexion he found that the identification of the prisoner's photograph was perfectly fairly and justly done. In Court, Corbyn said that he would not definitely say that the prisoner was one of the three foreigners who boarded the but he only' went so far as to say that he was not absolutely certain. His hesitation was that of a man who would not swear away another's liberty unless he was absolutely certain. They were left in the position that he was almost certain and that he had identified the photograph.
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