{"id":124264,"date":"1879-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1879-07-17T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/empress-of-india-vs-thompson-on-18-july-1879"},"modified":"2017-04-15T17:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T12:11:37","slug":"empress-of-india-vs-thompson-on-18-july-1879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/empress-of-india-vs-thompson-on-18-july-1879","title":{"rendered":"Empress Of India vs Thompson on 18 July, 1879"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Empress Of India vs Thompson on 18 July, 1879<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1880) ILR 2 All 340<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Oldfield<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Oldfield<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Oldfield, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. Since the conviction by the Sessions Judge the complainant has taken his wife back to live with him, and has asked this Court to be allowed to compound the offence, a sanction which cannot be given at this stage of the proceedings, but looking to the existing relations between the parties and the fact that the prisoner Thompson has been in custody since the 5th May, the Court is of opinion that the punishment already undergone will suffice, and his release is directed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Empress Of India vs Thompson on 18 July, 1879 Equivalent citations: (1880) ILR 2 All 340 Author: Oldfield Bench: Oldfield JUDGMENT Oldfield, J. 1. Since the conviction by the Sessions Judge the complainant has taken his wife back to live with him, and has asked this Court to be allowed to compound [&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":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allahabad-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Empress Of India vs Thompson on 18 July, 1879 - 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\/empress-of-india-vs-thompson-on-18-july-1879\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Empress Of India vs Thompson on 18 July, 1879 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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