The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday May 31 1915

Besides in the present times the head of the judiciary in Bengal should be one who may be in a position to understand the thoughts and ideas the manners customs and sentiments and even the prejudices of the people. [...] The power of appeal against acquittals was conferred on Local Governments in India under a section which was introduced in the Criminal Procedure Code by a jurist so devoted to the maintenance of the liberty of the subject and so conversant with the theory and practice of English Criminal Law as the late Mr. [...] The provisions however in the Criminal Code which confer on the High Courts very wide powers of revision in any criminal case which may have been tried by a subordinate Court should be the subject of very close scrutiny in the consideration of the reforms of the Criminal Procedure Code. [...] But the Magistrate admitted that the only question he asked the accused before recording the confession was whether the accused was willing to make a statement and to that question the accused replied in the affirmative. [...] What the Magistrate did did not in reality amount to a compliance with the soirit of the statute and the intention of the Legislature.