REX
V.
GEORGE C. THOMAS

 KINGDON, C.J., NIGERIA, PETRIDES, C.,J GOLD COAST AND FRANCIS, J., NIGERIA. The appellant was charged jointly with another man named George S. C. Willoughby upon information in the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone upon three counts of libel, the particulars given being: -

Count 1—“George S. C. Willoughby and George C. Thomas on or “about the 27th day of February, 1942. in the Colony of Sierra Leone “published a defamatory libel concerning Patrick Hamilton Bayley “the Superintendent of Prisons, Sierra Leone, in the form of a News- “paper article in a publican called. “The African Standard” which “contained the following defamatory matter concerning the said “Patrick Hamilton Bayley:

“On the other hand. I saw that in prison ‘honesty’ is “not the best policy. Every one-from the highest official to the “lowest crook is doing it. To be candid with the exception of “a few of the warders and one or two isolated members of the “office staff, the whole gang of official ought, in justice to be ‘gar…