There only remains to consider the degree of violence employed by the defendant at the time of the assault, with a view to determining the penalty to be imposed. On this point there ix considerable diverge tence between the evidence of the arties complainant alleges that, apart from the: blow on the face' which caused blood to flow, hho also received very severe wound" fon the chest which necessitated medical treatment for over two weeks. The defendant admits th blow on the face, but denies strike fig the complainant on the cheat, end he further asserts, Jul Justification, that the complainant was assisted in the scute by at three others. The complain-count is supported by other witnesses, but their evidence is discounted in some eases by subsequent admissions that they were too far away to see clearly what happened, whilst the complainant's own evid ence is gravely weakened by the fact that, although given every opportunity, he failed to produce any medical testimony bearing out the severity of his wounds, I am hound, therefore, to accept defendant's version of the occurs once and to reach the conclusion that the compli injuries were by no means so serious as alleged.
The finding of the Court is that the defendant be fined in the sum of 25 dollars and shall in addition pay a further sum of 25 dollars to the complainant as damages. Costs to be borne by defendant.
'Mr. Weatherbe applied for and was granted a stay of execution in order to consult his legal adviser with a view to appeal, June 29, te. Weatherbe has appealed against the judgment delivered by Mr. W. P. W. Turner, Britis' Consul in Peking, in the cave in which he was charged with having assaulted an Octrot official named Liu Huai-yuan—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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