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 April 12 1926

E. one of the 'oldest graduates of the Calcutta University senior Government pleader on the Appellate Side of the High Court and President of the Vakils' Association retired from public life full of years and hot and carrying with him the rivet and good wishes of his colleagues and associates in the profession and well-meried tributes of esteem and appreciation from the Bench. [...] Tt is true that the outbreak was confined to the lowest classes and latterly within the rowdy elements of both the Hindu and the Mahmedan sections of the population of the City. [...] The role that _is founded on the answers given by the learned Judges is as folows :-.— The jury ought to be told in all cases tirat every man is presumed to be sane and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to bereponsible for his crimes until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction and that to estalish a defence on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved that at the time [...] The Appellant who had succeeded in the appeal inasmuch as he had obtained a decrease in the aura payable had neglected to lodge the order in the High Court and the Pettioner prayed for the Order in Council to be varied by ordering it to be lodged within six weeks. [...] The case created a sensation almost similar to that of 1843 when the McNaghten case came before the Court in which the victim was the Private Secretary of Sir Robert Peel the then Prime Minister and the accused a. young Glasgow merchant of the name of McNaghten who was found to be not guilty on the ground of insanity.