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Indian Village Crimes with an Introduction on Police Investigation and Congressions

1929

The object of this collection of Indian'village crimes is not merely to interest the student of criminology and to illustrate the fascination and difficulties of police investigation and of the whole course of criminal adminitration in a large agricultural province but to try to throw some light upon the life and mentality of the ordinary Indian cultivator. [...] He seldom neglects to embark upon an exhaustive exercise of the art and has to fall back upon the characters of other mebers of the witness's family or the history of the various forms of litigation in which his ancestors were engaged with the family of the accused in order to show the 'enmity' of the witness. [...] The grant of a pardon is a matter for the discretion of the judge at the trial and depends upon whether the judge is of opinion that the Man has spoken the truth or sufficiently near it to deserve the concession. [...] The practice of making and of taking formal confessions and the side-issues to which it gives rise afford some of the most interesting studies in the administrtion of the criminal law and will repay the close attention of the reader. [...] From the mass of testimony documentary and otherwise and the complicated review in the judgment of the course of business it was clear that the judge was satisfied that a good many clerks in the post office in question had had a nibble at the fund and had falsified books and that the accused was a scapegoat.
government politics public policy
Pages
231
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142088
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Cecil Walsh view
Introduction
8-40 unknown view
The Decapitated Shikari
41-63 unknown view
The Fate of the Watch-Dog
64-83 unknown view
The Deaf and Dumb Corroborator
84-96 unknown view
The Double-Bluff
97-106 unknown view
The Mystery of the Plough
107-119 unknown view
The Murder in the Temple
120-135 unknown view
The Human Sacrifice
136-147 unknown view
The Patwari’s Nose
148-155 unknown view
A False Scent
156-164 unknown view
The Base Coin
165-175 unknown view
The False Confession
176-189 unknown view
The Murder of the Murderer
190-198 unknown view
A Police Pantomime
199-223 unknown view
Caste Vengeance
224-230 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view