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 Short Notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday July 13 1936

" If the defence is not proved and if the circumstances are such as prove dihonest conversion the charge is etablished." That is to say the charge is not established by the mere failure of the accused to prove his defence; another all-important factor is necessary namely sufficiency of the facts proved by the prosecution to establish the charge. [...] Justice Swift in charging the jury in Res v. Woolmington in the year 1935 oserved as follows :— "Once it is shown to the jury that somebody has died by the act of another that is presumed to be murder unless the person guilty of the act which causes death can satisfy the jury that whait happened was something less." And then again the Court of criminal apeal dismissed the appeal of the a [...] COURTNEY TERRELL C. J. DHAvaE and A GARWALLA JJ.:— A sale of immovable property in which the judgmendebtor has no interest at the date of the sale is not a nullity in the sense of being beyond the jurisdiction of the execuing Court or void as between the judgmendebtoi and the decree-holder auction-puchaser. [...] Per SULAIMAN C. J. BENNET and HARRIES JJ.— Though the acknowledgment of receipt of the whole or part of the consideration in a deed of sale is not a term of the deed the amount of the consideration is a term. [...] On the wife objecting to the attachment the Plaintiff withdrew the attachment and instituted the present suit for a declaration that the house really blonged to the Defendant No.