BACKING
WARRANT
GROUNDS
He harbors sympathy for
what they've been through,
at the same time, disgust and
abhorrence for what they did
to Roger Whetmore.
Justice Tatting dreads to give
his decision pertaining the
fate of the men, as he holds
conflicting emotions that he
was unable to discard. keep
himself from being shackled
by such emotions, so he may
judge the case that is
convincing and logical
In the Case of the Speluncean Explorers,
Justice Tatting abstained from making a
decision.
QUALIFIER
Justice Tatting remains
unconvinced from the contention
of his brothers, thus…
CLAIM
Justice Tatting withdraws from the decision
of this case. As the Supreme Court was evenly
divided, the conviction and sentence of the
Court of General Instances is affirmed and it
was ordered that the Public Executioner be
directed to proceed to hang each of the
defendants by the neck until he is dead.
REBUTTAL
Justice Foster contends that the explorers were ‘not in a
“state of civil society” but in a “state of nature”’ and
consequently the laws of the Commonwealth of Newgarth
do not apply. The principles of law to be applied are those
that were appropriate to their condition, and ‘under those
principles they were guiltless of any crime.