THE SCOTTISH

LAW REPORTER

CONTAINING REPORTS BY

JOHN BOYD, M.A. (EDITOR), H. KERMACK, M.A., A. O. M. MACKENZIE, B.A.,
SCOTT MONCRIEFF PENNEY, M.A., J. C. C. BROUN, M.A., LL.B.,

AND W. HARVEY, B.A., LL.B., ADVOCATES,

OF

CASES DECIDED IN THE COURT OF SESSION,
COURT OF JUSTICIARY, COURT OF TEINDS, AND
HOUSE OF LORDS.

VOLUME XXXI.

OCTOBER 1893-JULY 1894.

EDINBURGH:

JOHN BAXTER & SON, PRINTERS, ELDER STREET.

LORD WELLWOOD, LORD KYLLACHY, LORD KINCAIRNEY,
LORD STORMONTH DARLING, LORD LOW.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

Lord Justice-General

The Right Hon. J. P. B. ROBERTSON.

Lord Justice-Clerk

The Right Hon. J. H. A. MACDONALD (LORD KINGSBURGH).

Lords Commissioners of Justiciary

THE SENATORS OF THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE,

Under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1887 (50 and 51 Vict. cap. 35), sec. 44.
Lord Advocate-The Right Hon. J. B. BALFOUR, Q.C.

Solicitor-General-ALEXANDER ASHER, Q.C.,

succeeded by

THOMAS SHAW, Q.C.

Dean of Faculty-The Right Hon. Sir CHARLES J. PEARSON, Q.C.