§ 73. Mr. Ammonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies to whom were the appeals made on behalf of natives of British Somaliland sentenced to death which resulted in the death sentence being quashed in three cases and commuted in 13 others during the ten-year period 1928 to 1937, inclusive?
§ The Comptroller of the Household (Captain Waterhouse)I have been asked to reply. The appeals were heard by the Protectorate Court, and the commutations were made by the Governor acting under the power conferred on him by the Somaliland Order-in-Council.
§ Mr. AmmonDoes that mean that as there is no real judiciary of legally-trained people, appeals have to be made to a lay court on a question like this?
§ Captain WaterhouseI will draw the hon. Gentleman's question to the attention of my right hon. Friend.