The Archive · 1928

Private Prosecutions

"First of all, offences of this kind are all specified in the Pro-7 "Shanghai, 25/3728, visional Criminal Code, and no al-'The ense concerns that of a mason teration, or extension, of this and an ex-soldier who were santene specification has been made by the ed to death by Jude Liang and Provision of the Regulations Relat-'Mr, Van den Berg on January 21, Ing. to Criminal Procedure. The! on charges of the armed kidnapping assumption that article 358 forms of a Chinese on August 18, tt] an exception therefore, wnwaryear, and the attempted murders of article provides their victim and two Chinese con-'The Chinese was riding in his riesha along Weihaiwet Road when a gang of kidnappers forced Ahith to alight and enter a motorstituted only on complaint, the car, He attempted to escape and FRAP Aiot in the abdomen and thigh. previously lodged' a' complaint, ured "pasty, may, without havi 10 kidnappers scattered, but the stitute prosecution before the Cou two accused were arrested,. after Such a procedure is called 'a private they had thrown away their pistols. pronecutlon,' and article 368, by'

The Provincial Government order. numerating articles of the Criminal 4 a re-hearing of the case, one of Code, specifies these categories of the grounds given being that no offences for the prosecution of medical cortifeates of the victim's Which such procedure may injuries were furnished by the applied. And by this specification, many offences which are subject to prosecution only on complaint, have

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