{"id":143473,"date":"1915-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1915-04-27T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-public-prosecutor-vs-thandavan-chetty-on-28-april-1915"},"modified":"2014-08-26T06:21:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T00:51:39","slug":"the-public-prosecutor-vs-thandavan-chetty-on-28-april-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-public-prosecutor-vs-thandavan-chetty-on-28-april-1915","title":{"rendered":"The Public Prosecutor vs Thandavan Chetty on 28 April, 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The Public Prosecutor vs Thandavan Chetty on 28 April, 1915<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 29 Ind Cas 671<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: J Wallis, Coutts-Trotter<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. The Sessions Judge has not considered the provisions of a law applicable to this offence having regard to the nature of the injuries inflicted by the accused. Under Section 300 (3), of the Indian Penal Code the offence is ordinarily murder if the bodly injury intended to be inflicted was sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death. The accused in addition to other wounds inflicted a stab in the back one inch deep which pierced the pleura. This, in our opinion, was an injury sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death. The Medical Officer, thinking the wound was only half an inch deep, stated in the wound certificate that the wounds were not serious. Before the Magistrate he deposed in answer to a question that that he had made this statement, but cannot, we think, have intended to repeat it in the light, of the fuller information obtained afi the post mortem examination. If the wound was of the serious character indicated, it cannot, in our opinion, be seriously suggested that there was any provocation which would take the case out of the section. &#8220;We allow the appeal, convict the accused of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, and sentence him to transportation for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court The Public Prosecutor vs Thandavan Chetty on 28 April, 1915 Equivalent citations: 29 Ind Cas 671 Bench: J Wallis, Coutts-Trotter JUDGMENT 1. The Sessions Judge has not considered the provisions of a law applicable to this offence having regard to the nature of the injuries inflicted by the accused. 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