Article 144 — Depositions taken In preliminary inquiry may be put ill evidence.

(I) The deposition of a witness taken at a preliminary inquiry J;naybe read and put in evidence before the High Court where the witness is dead or insane, cannot be found, is so ill as not to be able to attend the trial or is absent from the Empire. (2) The deposition of an expert taken at a preliminary inquiry may be read and put in evidence before the High Court although he is not called as a witness.