The Archive · 1928

REX v. ABDOOL AZIZ In H, M. Supreme Court on July 20, before Judge Sir Peter Grain

Abdool Aziz, formerly a grease on board the P. & 0, S. Nankin, stood for trial, The charge was of wounding or causing grievous bodily harm to Soozad Ally, with intent to murder him, on board the ship, on the night of June 12, 1928, while the steamer was lying alongside Messrs. Jardine Matheson's men would beat him and he had fnerefore run away up. the con: panion again and had left the ship, hiding during' the night on the wharf. flo had nothing else to say.

'The Judge then' addressed the members of the jury, saying that there were no complicated facts in the case. There was' the direct evidence of Soozad Allu and his Lordship mentioned that although the Jaw usually holds that if a man used a razor on another man's

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