The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal August 30 1907

The order in which witnesses are produced and examined is regulated by the provisions of the Civil and Criminal Procedure Code and in the absence of any provision in these codes by the discretion of the Court (32). [...] The object of the examination-in-chief is to lay before the Court and Jury all the material facts which tend to prove the case of the party calling and examining the witness. [...] (3) Be mild with the mild shrewd with the crafty ; confiding with the honest ; merciful to the young the frail or the fearful ; rough to the ruffian and a thunderbolt to the liar. [...] The definition of Attempt" in the German Code and in the law of the United States of America support the view indicated abOve. [...] a Crime and amounting to the commencement of the execution of it 1t∎ America the rule has been laid down that an attempt can be only manifesed by acts which would end in the consummation of the offence hilt foe the intervention of circumstances independent of the will of the party This leads us to the question whether an attempt will or will not be punisable according to the reason of its