94. Mr. LINFIELDasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the practice in the Sierra Leone Protectorate regulating the prosecution and defence of native prisoners tried before the Circuit Court on capital charges; is the practice uniformly adhered to; whether there are any rules of court or written regulations on the subject; and, if so, what are their terms?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREThe practice followed in the Circuit Court in the connection mentioned is, so far as the circumstances of the Protectorate allow, identical with the practice of the Supreme Court of the Colony, and is adhered to as uniformly as the varying circumstances of different cases permit. Rules of Court on the subject were made by the Judge of the Circuit Court in 1915, the terms of which are to be found in the Sierra Leone Royal Gazette of 20th February, 1915.