§ MR. BIGGARasked the Lord Advocate, Whether his attention has been called to the case of Luchlan M'Leod, Uig, Island of Skye, who some time ago was sentenced by Sheriff Substitute Speirs, Portree, to ten days' imprisonment with hard labour for supposed prevarication while giving evidence in a civil action; whether, on the case being appealed to the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, for suspension of the sentence, appeal was refused, Lord Young dissenting from the other Judges; whether his attention has been called to the words of Lord Young, that this was a
High-handed summary procedure, founded on a fiction long since abandoned in the Supreme Criminal Court, where alone, so far as he knew, it was ever adopted;and, whether he would order a full inquiry into the sheriffs conduct in the matter?
THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR)This question has been finally decided by the highest Court of Appeal in Scotland, and there appears to be no necessity, and indeed no room, for further inquiry into the matter.