An application was made at the Mixed Court on Wednesday morning by Mr... K. Kentwell for a rehearing m_the case of Loh Dzing-yang, whd was charged with larceny from tha person and assault on an 18-year old Chinese in Kansuh Road on September 25 last shortly after midnight, as complainant was returning home from a theatrical performance. Accused had been sent to prison for nine months.
Mr, Kentwell based his application on the fact that'accused was sentenced on the uncorroborated statement of the complaining witness and that he had been unable to obtain the services of counsel to defend him.
Superintendent Vaughan, for the police, opposed the application and stated that the evidence of the complainant was not uncorroborated and that the facts had been? Lorne out by Inspector Mac-Kenzie and two witnesses, one of whom was complainant's sister. The complainant appeared in Court when accused! was tried and her face bore black marks, inflicted by accused, and exhibited to the Court the finger from which the accused had torn her rings and this was described as injured.
Mr. G. FE. Whitamore (Assessor who sat with Magistrate Li) said that Mr. Kentwell was entirely wrong in saying that the complainant's evidence. was uncarrovorated, while the Court consider ed that the nine months' imprisonment which he received was not at all severe. The sentence, if anything, was lenient, judgment would stand and the application would be refused.
Superintendent Vaughan. drew ths Court's attention to a ruling laid down by Mr. Mead (former senior British Assessor) that sentence would date from the time of the hearing of all re-hearing applications if the Court considered that they were without ground.
The Assessor stated that in this case ha would be lenient, but in future cases this ruling would be Mr. Ferdinand Meyer has been appointed First Secretary of the American Legation at Peking.
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