KINGSLEY-NYINAH J.
This is an application for leave to appeal against the ruling of his worship J.F.S. Hansen, Esquire, delivered in these extradition proceedings on Thursday, 5 September 1968. In that ruling, the learned magistrate decided against the surrender unto the Government of Sierra Leone of Major Sandi Boakarie Jumu, referred to in the proceedings as the fugitive. The burden of his decision was that since the acts of the respondent herein were of a political character, he could not properly and legally order his extradition under our laws.
In the course of the proceedings before the district court, several exhibits were tendered in evidence, amongst them, the duly authenticated depositions, taken in Sierra Leone, and the charges, (running into three counts) upon which the extradition of the respondent herein was sought, namely false imprisonment. Concerning that offence, the particulars of offence made the following allegations: As to count (1) that: "Sandi Jumu … assaulted C…