Human Leopards : $b an account of the trials of Human Leopards before the Special Commission Court; with a note on Sierra Leone, past and presentBeatty, Kenneth James
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Human Leopards : $b an account of the trials of Human Leopards before the Special Commission Court; with a note on Sierra Leone, past and present
Beatty, Kenneth James
Cannibalism; Ethnology -- Sierra Leone; Leopard men; Sierra Leone -- History
(5) Where a trial of a person is postponed or discontinued, the trial of
such person may take place before the same Court or any other Special
Commission Court, and shall take place as soon as may be.
(6) In the event of a trial of a person taking place before another
Special Commission Court, a new warrant shall be issued for the trial of
such person.
(7) A commission appointing a Special Commission Court shall not be
superseded or affected by the issue of another like commission, nor
shall the sitting or jurisdiction of such Court be affected by the
sitting of any such commission or of the Supreme Court of the Colony or
the Circuit Court of the Protectorate.
[Sidenote: No. 5 of 1896.]
[Sidenote: No. 12 of 1910.]
(8) A Special Commission Court shall be a Court within the meaning of
the Perjury Ordinance, 1896, and the Children (Criminal Law Amendment)
Ordinance, 1910.
[Sidenote: No. 14 of 1912.]
(9) The provisions of the Supreme Court Amendment Ordinance, 1912, shall
not apply to a trial of a person by a Special Commission Court.
(10) An objection to the jurisdiction of a Special Commission Court to
try a person in pursuance of a warrant under this Ordinance shall not be
entertained by reason only of any want of form in the warrant, or of any
mistake in the name or description of such person in the warrant, if it
is shown that the person tried is the person to whom the warrant
relates; and an objection to the proceedings of such Court for any want
of form on the trial of any person shall not be entertained, if no
injustice was thereby done to such person.
[Sidenote: Procedure.]
6.—(1) When a person is brought up for trial before a Special Commission
Court, he shall be triable for any offence, being one, or connected with
one, of the offences referred to in Section 2 of this Ordinance,
disclosed by the depositions taken by the Court of the District
Commissioner at the investigation of the charge, and the Special
Commission Court shall inform such person specifically of the charge
whereon he is to be tried, and shall record such charge in writing and
call upon such person to plead thereto.
(2) At any time before the trial, on application by a person charged
with an offence or by some person on his behalf, a copy of the written
charge, if any, of the depositions and of the statement of such person
so charged shall be supplied by the officer in whose custody the
originals are deposited at the time of such application, for which a
reasonable charge, not exceeding sixpence for every hundred words, may
be made, or the same may be supplied without payment, as shall to the
officer granting the application in his discretion seem expedient.
[Sidenote: Depositions of absent witnesses when admissible.]
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