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Excerpt from Charge of the Honorable John B. Robinson, Chief Justice of Upper Canada to the Grand Jury at Toronto: Thursday, 8th March, 1838 on Opening the Court Appointed by Special Commission to Try Prisoners in Custody on Charges of Treason
Under a Statute lately passed, the Special Commission which you have just heard read, has issued into this District for the trial of all ofi'ences of High Treason, Misprision of High Treason, or Treasonable practices, committed in any part of this Province.
You will observe two peculiarities which distinguish this Court from those convened under the ordinary Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery. - ltsjurisdic tion is in one respect more comprehensive, as you have authority to inquire into o?'ences committed out of the limits of your District - in another respect it is much more confined, as the Commission gives you no power over any other crimes than those which it especially enumerates, namely, High Treason, Misprision of Treason, or Treasonable practices. This devia tion from the ordinary course ofjustice in criminal proceedings, is in accordance with what has repeatedly taken place in England under like circumstances; and indeed the peculiar method of conducting trials for Treason, and for Misprision of Treason, renders it nearly impossible that they should be disposed of under the usual Commissions of Gaol Delivery.
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