{"id":174595,"date":"1915-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1915-04-27T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/in-re-chagantipati-china-vs-unknown-on-28-april-1915"},"modified":"2016-04-19T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T01:22:11","slug":"in-re-chagantipati-china-vs-unknown-on-28-april-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/in-re-chagantipati-china-vs-unknown-on-28-april-1915","title":{"rendered":"In Re: Chagantipati China &#8230; vs Unknown on 28 April, 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">In Re: Chagantipati China &#8230; vs Unknown on 28 April, 1915<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 29 Ind Cas 544<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Napier<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Napier<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Napier, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. There is no provision in Section 14 of the Indian Arms Act requiring a person to deposit a spear: and no other basis for the conviction is put forward by the Magistrate. The conviction and sentence are set aside. The fine should be refunded and the spear should be returned to the accused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court In Re: Chagantipati China &#8230; vs Unknown on 28 April, 1915 Equivalent citations: 29 Ind Cas 544 Author: Napier Bench: Napier JUDGMENT Napier, J. 1. There is no provision in Section 14 of the Indian Arms Act requiring a person to deposit a spear: and no other basis for the conviction is [&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-174595","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>In Re: Chagantipati China ... vs Unknown on 28 April, 1915 - 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\/in-re-chagantipati-china-vs-unknown-on-28-april-1915\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Re: Chagantipati China ... vs Unknown on 28 April, 1915 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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