The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal 1936

" When we assign to the judge the task of investigating the pesonality of the accused we by no means wish to accept the demands of various adherents of the sociological school of criminal law who indeed also wished the personality of the offender to be taken into account. [...] At the hearing of the appeal the prosecntor was absent but counsel for the CommiSsioner of Metropolitan Police (within whose area the theft had been committed) claimed to be entitled to coduct the case for the respondent and was in a position WI produce witnesses from whose evidence the Court would have been able to form an opinion as to the justice of the sentence imposed upon the defenant [...] For the appellant it was contended that in the absence of the prosecutor the only person entitled to the conduct of the case was the Director of Public Prosecutions. [...] So far as can be ascertained from the reports of the above case the iformant had acted under the direction of the Commissioner of Police in whose hands the conduct of the case had been throughout the trial. [...] Secondly in the letters themselves the vertical position of the paper makes an accumulation of ink at the lower parts of the lines and loops It happens also that the point of the pen holds in the fibres of the paper in lines going upward making what looks like a knot in the written line.