. The Baganda . Unless he could obtainhis release through the intercession of his friends, his lifewould soon end at one of the sacrificial places. The King often brought a spurious charge against a chiefwho was becoming rich, and fined him heavily, or sent himto prison, intimating to him that he must pay a handsomesum if he wished to be freed ; failing that, he would be castinto the stocks, where he would be so much ill used, that hewould be glad to pay any fine to escape the torture and thedanger of being put to death. S 2 26o The Katikiros Court. THE BAGANDA CHAP. The majority of appeals en
. The Baganda . Unless he could obtainhis release through the intercession of his friends, his lifewould soon end at one of the sacrificial places. The King often brought a spurious charge against a chiefwho was becoming rich, and fined him heavily, or sent himto prison, intimating to him that he must pay a handsomesum if he wished to be freed ; failing that, he would be castinto the stocks, where he would be so much ill used, that hewould be glad to pay any fine to escape the torture and thedanger of being put to death. S 2 26o The Katikiros Court. THE BAGANDA CHAP. The majority of appeals ended in the Katikirds court,which ranked next after the Kings court; it stood facingthe Kings entrance. This court-house appears to havebeen a survival of an old custom, according to which theKing sat under one of the .sacred trees at the entrance ofhis enclosure, and tried all cases brought to him. TheKatikiro tried the more important cases in person, butdeputed an assistant to try others ; the assistant had to. FIG. 40.—THE katikiros ENCLOSURE, WITH OLD COURT-HOUSE INWHICH APPEALS WERE HEARD. report the result of his examination, and the Katikiro thengave the decision. In each court a fee of twenty cowry-- shells was paid by the plaintiff when stating his case, and afurther fee of a goat and a barkcloth, before the wassummoned to appear in court; the accused also paid a goatand a barkcloth before the case was tried ; these sums werecalled the bitebi. When sentence was given, the judge finedthe offender two goats and one barkcloth, which were given VIII GOVERNMENT 261 to the plaintiff in addition to the whole amount which heclaimed from the defendant. When an appeal was madefrom one court to another, ending in the Katikiros, theplaintiff paid the fee of twent\- cowry-shells, a goat, and abarkcloth to each of the lower courts, but to the Katikirdscourt he paid ten goats and five barkcloths. If it was a caseof cattle-lifting which was to be tried, the Katikiro fined th
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