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criminal cases as also in civil cases, if the parties be 

 dissatisfied and appeal the decision of the Harads- 

 Riitt goes up to the Hof-Ratt, a Superior Court, for 

 confirmation or reversal, as the case may be. In my 

 instance unhappily it was reversed, and for the reasons 

 subjoined. 



After recapitulating the proceedings before the Harads- 

 Ratt, the Hof-Ratt thus expresses itself : " From this it 

 clearly appears, and that upon sufficient grounds, that Lloyd 

 did not shoot Svensson with intent and design ; as also that 

 Lloyd had no reason to suppose Svensson, prior to the signal 

 agreed upon, would have left his appointed station at the 

 outside of the Ring, much less that he should have proceeded 

 to the very spot within the Ring pointed out by him as that 

 where he believed the bear to lie ; or that there could be any 

 human being besides himself (Lloyd) and companions in the 

 wild and distant forest where the hunt took place. As Lloyd, 

 nevertheless, admits that he could not clearly distinguish the 

 object at which he fired, and as the proceedings before the 

 Harads-Ratt do not show whether the colour of the clothes 

 worn on the occasion by Svensson, or his position at the 

 moment of the shot at a distance of fifty paces, more or 

 less, likened a bear, his case cannot be applicable to Chap. 

 29, 2, of the Criminal Code (M. B.), to which he 

 has been made amenable by the Harads-Ratt, for that has 

 only reference to casual accidents, such as shooting at an 

 animal, and some one being killed in consequence, or that a 

 ball rebounds, and a death ensues ; for Lloyd, on the contrary, 

 aimed at the very object that was struck by the ball, and 

 thus, through carelessness, was the cause of Svensson's death. 

 The Hof-Ratt therefore reverses the decision of the Harads- 



