An Act to amend the Law relating to Criminal Lunatics.
WHEREAS by the sixth section of "The Criminal Lunatics Act, 1867," it is enacted, "that where the term of punishment awarded to any criminal lunatic confined in any asylum or other place of confinement for criminal lunatics expires before such evidence of his sanity has been given as justifies his being discharged, such consequences shall ensue as are therein-after mentioned:" And whereas doubts are entertained whether such section extends to criminal lunatics whose terms of punishment have e...