Kerala Court March 1953 Judgments
Neelakantan Vasu Vs. State
Court: Kerala
Decided on: Mar-20-1953
Reported in: 1954CriLJ658
Koshi, C.J.1. The referred trial and the Criminal Appeal arose from the judgment of the learned Sessions Judge of Kottayam in Sessions Case No. 41 of 1952 convicting one Neelakantan Vasu of the offence of murder and sentencing him to the extreme penalty of the law.2. We heard the case first on 18th February 1953 and reserved judgment. On perusing the records we found that on a point very material to the case the prosecution evidence was discrepant, and the document bearing on the point, conflicting and irreconcilable. The weapon, to wit, a rather biggish penknife, with which the accused was alleged to have killed his wife, for which offence he was tried and found guilty by the learned Sessions Judge, was, according to the mahazar embodied in the Inquest Report (Ext. C) soaked in blood at the time of its recovery. The prosecution case was that the police recovered it from the scene of the offence when holding the Inquest which was begun within 12 hours of the occurrence. The Chemical Ex...
Tag this Judgment!State of Kerala Vs. Joseph and Another
Court: Kerala
Decided on: Mar-05-1953
Reported in: 1963CriLJ454
Anna Chandy, J.1. This appeal is by the State against the order passed by the First Class Magistrate, Cranganore acquitting the two respondents of charges arising out or an alleged theft of explosives from a Government store.2. Large stocks of explosives for use in connection with the construction of the Sholayar Hydro-Electric Project were stored by the Government in two magazines situated 3 little off the Chalakkudy-Malikkippara Road at mile stone 41/4, These magazines were under the direct control of P. W. 2, a Junior Engineer attached to the project, the prosecution alleges that some time after 10.30 P.M. on 20-54960 and before the next morning accused 1 Joseph, who is now no more, broke open the locks of these magazines and committed theft of 21 boxes of gelatine and. 7400 detonators. The stolen goods were removed from the place by accused 1, accused 2 and P, Ws. 8 and 9 in a lorry belonging to accused 3 a contractor. The lorry was first driven to Thumpurmuzhi where four packets o...
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