Court : Chennai
Decided on : Nov-05-1934
Reported in : AIR1935Mad528; 158Ind.Cas.662
Beasley, C.J.1. Before dealing with the first point to be considered by this Full Bench, I propose to set out some of the facts of this case. At 1-34 A.M., on January 13, of this year, the Parcels Express train which left the Egmore Station at Madras at 10-10 P.M., arrived at Karunguzhi Station on the South Indian Railway. There it delivered six parcels. Five of these were handed over to the respective owners on production by them of the tickets relating to them at about 7 o'clock on the same morning. The sixth remained undelivered as no one claimed it.2. It is described by T.S. Narayanaswami Ayyar (P.W. No. 28), the Assistant Station Master at Karunguzhi to whom all the parcels were delivered, as a bed parcel packed in a date leaf mat. The receipt of this parcel and the others was acknowledged by this witness in Ex. U. In order that parcels Could be carried by that train as luggage it is necessary for the senders to have passenger tickets and the number of each passenger ticket is ent...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Decided on : Nov-21-1934
Reported in : AIR1935Mad486; 158Ind.Cas.764
Cornish, J.1. The learned Chief Justice acting under Clause 25, Letters Patent, has reserved as a point of law for determination under Clause 26 the question whether certain statements given in evidence at the trial of M. Ramanuja Ayyangar for murder were admissible. The statements which are in question were made by the prisoner while he was in the custody of a Police Officer at the shop of a witness, J.W. No. 10, and had relation to the sale of a mattress by that witness at that shop to the prisoner on the January 12, and to the carriage of the mattress by a coolie woman, P.W. No. 11, from the shop.2. The circumstances in which the statements came to be made may be briefly narrated. It is in evidence that the murdered woman had left her husband on August 4, and from that date had been living with the prisoner at different places in Madras, From December 23, until the evening of January 11, which was the last occasion according to the evidence on which she was seen alive, the prisoner ...
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