The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Noted of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday January 14 1924

If you are satisfied on the other hand that the shot was fired by one of those persons in furtherance of the common intention if that be so then it is your duty to find a verdict of guilty.” The defence contended that this portion of the charge was a mis-direction inasmuch as if the jury had any doubt in their minds that it was the accused’s pistol which fired the fatal shot it was the Judge’ [...] The difference between the acts of two men is that the one actually killed the Inspector and the other merely attempted to kill him. [...] The apparent simplicity of the language of the section is delusive as it funishes no test to determine when a particular criminal act may be said to have been done by several persons ; and the consequence has been that the Courts have sometimes in their reluctance to apply the section to the facts of the case before them come to the conclusion that the criminal act was not proved with ceta [...] The review of the American Statutes shows that the lack of a standard of the mental or physical defects has been a great obstacle in putting the law into operation. [...] 1 of the Succession''Certificate Act being Act VII of 1889 runs as follows :- A District Court may from time to time on the application of the holder of a certificate under this Act extend the certificate to any debt or security not originally specified therin and every such extension shall have the same effect as if the debt or security to which the certificate is extended had been origi