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 July 23 1928

The Code of Criminal Procedure it is the duty of the Judge in a trial by jury to decide all questions of law arising in the course of the trial and especially all questions as to the relevancy of facts which it is proposed to prove and the admissibility of evidence. [...] Illustration (b) is corroboration in material particulars and these particulars must be such as to connect or identify each of the accused with the offence." ... The conclusion arrived at by Lord Williams J. is that it is the duty of the Judge to direct the attention of the jury to those portions of the evidence confirming or corroborating the accomplice's story which do undo no [...] The interference of the High Court in the exceptional circumstances of the case is not a matter of public importance but the question whether the High Court ought to entertain the application of a witness for expunging remarks made by the lower Court against him in a case which has not come up to the High Court in appeal or revision is one of great importance. [...] their Lordships in view of the conflict of authority on the point for decision namely whether the decree of the Civil Court in favour of the Petitioner was binding on the Magistrate and on account of the importance of the matter to Magitrates charged with the maintenance of peace referred the following three questions to the Full Bench :— (i) Do the words " actual possession " in sub-sec [...] of the plaint for presentation to proper Court on the ground that the suit should have been valued at the value of the subject matter in dispute and the value of the subject matter being Rs.