[IN REVISION.]

1917  Present: Shaw J.

ALLES v. PALANIAPPA CHETTY.

P. C. Colombo, 5,361.

Fugitive offender-Warrant for arrest-Offence committed by person residing out of Ceylon-Revision-Writ of prohibition.

To render a person liable to be apprehended under the Fugitive Offenders Act there must be an offence committed in some part of His Majesty's dominions, and subsequent to the offence the offender must have left that part.

The provisions for apprehension do not apply to a person who in one part of His Majesty's dominions commits an offence in, or abets the commission of an offence in, another part, and who was not in that part at the time of the offence, and has not since been there. Such a person can, in general, be prosecuted for the offence in that part of His Majesty's dominions in which he was when he committed the offence, and if it is more convenient that he should be removed for trial to another part, he can be so removed under the provisions of section 85 of the Act.

The powers of revision given to the Supreme Court by sections 21 and 40 of the Courts Ordinance are very wide and general; they might be exercised in respect