The Friend of India and Statesman Friday May 16th 1879

C. says— If the Court disagrees with the verdict of the jurors or a majority of such jurors and considers it necessary for the ends of justice to do so it may submit the case to the High Court and may either remand the prisoner to custody or admit him to bail." This appears to be an ample safeguard of justice. [...] But when a verdict of acquittal has been followed by the discharge of the prisoner the Judge not deeming it necessary for the ends of justice to send up the case it is a Lard matter that another party should have the power to re-arrest the acquitted person and have the whole case re-opened before another tribunal. [...] The Resolution hastens to inform us that all the xpectations of the Government of India "in regard to the atisfactory condition end prospects of the finances have rithin the last few months been dispelled." The confession 3 amazing. [...] The first head would contain all the new Part V. and not a few sections also which at present are miserably exiled in Part III.; while the remainder of the latter part would come under the second and third heads thus presenting in a compact and logical form the complete procedure from the commission of the offence to the production of the offe nder in court. [...] The assembly had not for its common object the overawing a public aerosol in the exercise of the lawful power of such public servant nor woe the common object the enforcing of a right the only item of clause 4 which could in any Ivey apply ; the crowd therefore up to the time the prisoners were rescued were not no unlawful assembly.