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The Criminal Law Journal of India. Journal. June 15 1907

1907

Incidentally she stated in the course of her evidenc -that at the time when the prisoner proposed to use these instruments he told her that he had 'put dozens of girls right.' 'This evidence was tendered for the purpose of showing the intent with which the prisoner had used the instruments upon Jones because the defence was that the prisoner had used the instruments upon Jones but for a lawful [...] Justice A. T. Lawrence in the case whiclihe submitted to the Court but was simply included with the rest of the winess's answers which seemed to be material in the judge's notes of the evidence appended to the case. [...] - of evidence of similar acts merely because of eir milarity; and that Lord Alverstone based his dissent from the nipjority of the Court upon the ground that in his opinion the impugned evidence as tending to establish a system or course of conduct was " too dangerotis and not sufficient to justify the admission of the evidence." Let us now shortly trace out the rule of evidence and the excep [...] On the other hand the mere fact that the evidence adduced tends to show the commission of other crimes does not render it inadmissible if it be relevant to an issue before the jury and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the acts alleged to constitute the crime charged in the indictment were designed or accidental or to rebut a defence whil would otherwise be open to the [...] The doctrines of the remaining sub-sections of s. 1.1 of the Canadian Code asserting the legal presumption of sanity and limiting the extent to which a specific delusion will excuse a man who is otherise sane were also referred to in the charge as being part and parcel of the American As is well known these provisions of the Canadian Code are based upon liat must be still regarded in spite of
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Pages
16
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120178
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The Criminal Law Journal of India. Journal. June 15 1907
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