The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday June 3 1929

Where would be our confidence in the Government of the 'country or in the legislature by which our laws are framed and to whose charge the great interest of the country is committed — where would be our attachment to the coditions under which we live —if the proceeings of the great council of the realm were shrvded in secrecy and concluded from the knowledge of the nation? [...] The law of England upon this subject is beyond doubt." Coming to Indian law the learned Chief Justice observed: " A conviction upon the uncorroborated evidence of one accomplice or mere than one is valid in law but the judge in summing up should advise the jury as to the danger of convicting a prisoner on such evidence merely." The Indian Evidence Act has not altered the law as settled by the [...] had to consder the question of the e nature " of the " corroborative " evidence required and the learned Judges with the exception of the Chief Justice held that the corroborative evidence which coupled with the confession of an alleged accomplice would be sufficient to sustain the conviction of a prisoner must be such as would itself if believed be suffcient for conviction while Garth C. J [...] 23) and the judgment of the High Court in that case (Terrell C. J. and MacPherson J. ) while containing a correct statement of the law lays down that in dealing with the evidence of the accomplice at the outset it is not the business of the Court to see whther there are any exceptional circustances justifying a departure from the general rule demanding corroboration but that it is to see [...] A brief outline of the principles of the English Common Law of Carriage with an analysis of the different stages of the development of the law both by the legilature and judicial decisions is given.