Adams J:

This is an appeal by Lim Kong who was convicted by the learned President of the Sessions Court sitting at Johore Bahru on 9 August 1961, on an amended charge in that he between 11 and 13 February 1961, at Jemaluang in the Police District of Mersing, in the State of Johore, in order to the committing of extortion put Wong Ah Kam in fear of death of her son, Teng Wah Fook by threatening that he would kill Teng Wah Fook unless the said Wong Ah Kam paid him $14,000 ransom money, and that he thereby committed an offence punishable under s. 387 of the Penal Code. The appellant was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and the car in which he was arrested was ordered to be confiscated.

There were eight grounds of appeal. The first of these, which was subsequently abandoned by Mr. Marshall, was in effect that there was no jurisdiction for the learned President to transfer the case from the Mersing Sessions Court to the Sessions Court sitting at Johore Bahru. In view of the fact that Mr. Marshall abandoned this it is not necessary to say anything more than that the jurisdiction of a Sessions Court is Federation wide [Courts Ordinance, 1948, s. 59(2)] and s. 104 gives a