Chennai Court December 1937 Judgments
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In Re: Public Prosecutor
Court: Chennai
Decided on: Dec-01-1937
Reported in: AIR1938Mad613
ORDERLakshmana Rao, J.1. Section 397, Criminal P.C., is not applicable to sentences of detention Under Section 8, Madras Borstal Schools Act and the direction that the sentence of detention in this case should commence after the expiration of the previous sentence of detention is illegal. The direction that the sentence in this case should commence after the previous sentence of detention is therefore set aside....
In Re: Dasi Viraya
Court: Chennai
Decided on: Dec-01-1937
Reported in: AIR1938Mad490; 175Ind.Cas.422
Mockett, J.1. The accused has been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife on July 28, 1937, at about 10 o'clock in the morning. At the time of murder, the deceased was not living with the accused but was living about 100 yards away in the hut of P.W. No. 1. She had left her husband and was living under P.W. No. l's protection. In P.W. No. 1's hut was also living a little girl, (he daughter of the accused and the deceased (P.W. No. 2 in this case), who was a young child appearing to be about seven or eight years in the Sessions Court. Her evidence is that on that morning she was in P.W. No. l's hut powdering chillies and her mother was washing clothes near the palmyra trees when her father, the accused, arrived, and cut the deceased with a knife. She states:My father held my mother's tuft of hair and cut her neck. I was frightened that he would cut me also and hid myself behind a wall. Then I went to my grandfather's house and reported to him.2. Then she describes h...
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