LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
LIABILITY FOR MURDERS COMMITTED ABROAD. [To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The article on " The African Horrors," in your issue of the 15th inst., reads as though it may have been written in forgetfulness of 24 and 25 Vic., cap. 100, which deals with the subject of " venue " in murders and manslaughters com- mitted out of the United Kingdom.
Section 9 of this statute enacts that, "when any murder or manslaughter shall be committed on land out of the United Kingdom, whether within the Queen's dominions or without, and whether the person killed be a subject of her Majesty or not, every offence committed by any subject of her Majesty in respect of any such case may be dealt with and punished in any country or place in England or Ireland in which such person shall be apprehended." Therefore, technically speaking, Englishmen can never be said to be irresponsible for death-sentences, if such sentences
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