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The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday June 15 1914

1914

Thus an acquittal on a charge of murder was a bar to a subsequent indictment for manslaughter as the jury could have convicted of manslaughter.” The net result of the judgment of the Lord Chief Justice seems to be that the questions that arise on a plea of autrefois acquit are these : Could the prisoner have been convicted at the first trial of the offence charged at the subsequent trial ? Was the [...] But the prevailing feeling in the profession is that the Bar if better organised can make its influence much more felt in the framing of the law and in the proper administrtion of it to the immense benefit of the public at large. [...] The constable had information of the offence committed by R through the warrant issued by the Bombay police and such information may well be described as credible information The constable and the chowkidar were within their rights and were discharging their duty in their attempt to arrest R and if in the discharge of their duties they were obstructed by the Petitioners the offence of the latter f [...] The statement obviously referred to a case where the offences were the same : "practically the same " the words were and as the two offences in the present case were not either exactly or practically the same it did not help the Appellant. [...] The decision can only be supported if at all on the principle of Ex pane lames that the estate of the bankrupt's having been increased by the fees of counsel paid to and improperly retained by the Solicitors and this amount having been mixed with and become indistinguishable from the rest of the bankrupt's property all that the Court can do by way of acting honestly is to order the trustee to
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8
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100104
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday June 15 1914
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