The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday April 25 1904

The law of England requires that a false statement in order to support a charge should be material to the question in dispute but the Penal Code does not impose that qualification so that we need not consider the question how far the statment became material through the error of the Judge who permitted it to be put. [...] A practical test of the value of these documents may be furnished by supposing that they constituted the sole evidence in the case and that the accused was being tried on them before a Judge and a Jury : in sueit circumstances we have not the smallest doubt that it would be an error of law for the Judge to allow the case to go to the jury. [...] —Where only some of the accused persons were sent up by the police and were acquitted the Magistrate holding that the case against the petitioners was not true and the opposite party in a cross-case was convicted by the Magistrate but acquitter on appeal and he applied to the Magistrate who without examining him declined process against those not sent up by the police he/d othat the order o [...] BREACH OF BOND.—A surety executed a bond 'that the accused would appear in the Court of the Deputy Magistrate before whom the case was pening and the accused failed to appear before the District Magistrate to whose file the 'case was 189"oie THE CAtCtriVA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] The SuDivisional Magistrate in consequence of an opinion formed by him during the inquiry proceeded to try the petitioner who was one of the persons who made the Vetition originally to the Deputy Commissioner and covicted him under sec.