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Public Prosecutor v Tran Hoa [1939] VUNHJC 1; Criminal 656 (12 May 1939)

JOINT COURT OF THE NEW HEBRIDES.

JUDGMENT.

This twelvth day of May one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine.

At a Public Hearing held at Vila;

Before:-

Manuel Bosch Barrett, President,
W.D. Carew, British Judge,
C.A. Doley, French Judge, assisted by C. Steinmetz, Acting Registrar.

By a Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Central District) delivered on the 19th April) 1939, Tran Hoa, a Tonkinese, was convicted and sentenced to eight days imprisonment and a fine of two hundred francs, under Article 59 of the Convention of 1914, for having sold alcoholic liquor to New Hebrides natives.

The accused appeared before the Court of First Instance in his own defence.

The abovementioned conviction is now before the Joint Court for review.

The Joint Court having examined the evidence confirms the Judgment of the Court of First Instance and upholds the conviction and the sentence to eight days imprisonment and a fine of two hundred francs.

President of the Joint Court
French Judge
British Judge
Acting Registrar