{"id":106182,"date":"1938-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1938-11-29T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mandavalli-satyanarayanamurthi-vs-kotha-manikyala-rao-on-30-november-1938"},"modified":"2016-01-10T08:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T02:42:54","slug":"mandavalli-satyanarayanamurthi-vs-kotha-manikyala-rao-on-30-november-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mandavalli-satyanarayanamurthi-vs-kotha-manikyala-rao-on-30-november-1938","title":{"rendered":"Mandavalli Satyanarayanamurthi vs Kotha Manikyala Rao on 30 November, 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mandavalli Satyanarayanamurthi vs Kotha Manikyala Rao on 30 November, 1938<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1940 Mad 265<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: L Rao<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>Lakshmana Rao, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The view of the Joint Magistrate that a partner cannot be convicted of criminal breach of trust under any circumstances is erroneous and the order of acquittal cannot be sustained. It is therefore set aside and there will be a retrial in accordance with law by such other Magistrate aa the District Magistrate may direct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Mandavalli Satyanarayanamurthi vs Kotha Manikyala Rao on 30 November, 1938 Equivalent citations: AIR 1940 Mad 265 Author: L Rao ORDER Lakshmana Rao, J. 1. The view of the Joint Magistrate that a partner cannot be convicted of criminal breach of trust under any circumstances is erroneous and the order of acquittal cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mandavalli Satyanarayanamurthi vs Kotha Manikyala Rao on 30 November, 1938 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mandavalli-satyanarayanamurthi-vs-kotha-manikyala-rao-on-30-november-1938\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mandavalli Satyanarayanamurthi vs Kotha Manikyala Rao on 30 November, 1938 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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