The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal 1942

Channell J. said that exactly the same principle applied in the case of a corporation and therefore the company defendant in that case could be convicted of the offence under s. 6 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act 1875 of selling to the prejudice of a purchaser an article of food which was not of the nature substance and quality of the article demanded by the purchaser. [...] (c) There is a dearth of pronouncements on the auth6rity of precedents in the predecessor of the Court of Criminal Appeal in the last two decades of the ninteenth century and the first seven years of this one. [...] that the earlier case impliedly agreed with when he concluded: think that that decis the decision in the But the distinction b"10 THE CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL 1942 One instance of the conflicts which have occurred was the.variance in the directions given to the jury on the defence of irresstible impulse before the Court of Criminal Appeal settled the question. [...] The gist of the extract was that if the taxpayer takes the initiative and voluntarily discloses the fact of the past frauds and their full extent and is also prepared to facilitate investigation and to furnish full evidence (including not only the business books and records but also private bank books) as may be requied on behalf of the board as to the amount of the correct liability the boa [...] It should not be difficult in these days of scientific advancement to adopt the neces sary measures of public hygiene and in the case of the pioneers the adult members of the criminal tribes the Government has the advantage of being in a position to use some judicious compulsion.