Justice took an unusual course in the First Special District Court "on, Aug. 4 in a case involving a Chinese charged with selling heroin, The accused was Lin Chi-kwan and he was charged with dealing in heroin and having business deals with a Japanese.
As the accused did not have money with which to engage a lawyer, Mr. Moh Loh-ching, a Chinese lawyer, was instructed to defend him order of the Judge. It was stated evidence that the accused was arrested on Broadway East, near Hwakee Road, recently by 'CP.C No. #272, and he admitted having assisted a Japanese already in custody the sale of heroin, and the police found 40 packets of the drug in the home of the accused.
Instead of defending the accused, Mr. Moh, the lawyer appointed by the court for his defence, asked the court to punish him according to the Taw on the ground that the prisoner had assisted a Japanese in the sale Gf heroin, He also described him as traitor to the Chinese. Accused was sentenced to life Imprisonment ted deprived of civil rights for life.
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