REX
V.
FLIGHT-LIEUT. AUSTIN ROBERT QUINN

The judgment of the Court was delivered by the President :- The Appellant, a Flight-Lieutenant in the R.A.F., was charged upon information in the Supreme Court of the Colony of the Gambia if for that he

“On or about the 1st day of May 1944, at Bathurst in the Colony of f the Gambia did wilfully obstruct Sub-Inspector Kebba jallow of the Gambia Police Force in the due execution of his duty to wit. the investigation he was carrying out as a result of a report received of a death which had occurred at the R.A.F. Camp, Marina, Bathurst aforesaid contrary to section 230 (h) of the Criminal Code.”

He was convicted and sentenced to a fine of £10 or in default of payment 21 days I.H.L. Against that conviction he has appealed to this Court.

The facts of the case are sufficiently set out in the evidence of the Sub-Inspector as follows :- “

" I am Sub-Inspector, Gambia Police, Bathurst, I received certain report on 1st May of an alleged shooting of himself by a Flight-Lieut. R.A.F. at I Marina R.A.…