Tai Shek's Appeal Case
p. 26 · Read in the full issue
on December 15 First of its Kind in Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Nov. 27.
THE first sitting of Fiji’s new Court of Appeal will be opened in Suva on December 15. The Court will com prise the Chief Justice, the Puisne Judge and the British Judge in the New Heb rides.
The first appeal set down for hearing is that against the death sentence imposed on Tai Shek at the conclusion of his trial in the Supreme Court, Suva, on Sep tember 26. Tai Shek was found guilty of the murder of T. W. Allen, a British Phosphate Commission engineer, and his wife, at Ocean Island on April 26. Three of the assessors at the trial gave an opinion of “guilty” to his Honor, Mr. R.
C. G. D. Higginson and the remaining two said “not guilty.” Mr. Gordon Bryce ap peared for the Crown and Mr. H. Maurice Scott for the defence.