{"id":267366,"date":"1927-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1927-02-02T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/in-re-william-plythe-perrett-vs-unknown-on-3-february-1927"},"modified":"2015-01-07T02:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T21:21:42","slug":"in-re-william-plythe-perrett-vs-unknown-on-3-february-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/in-re-william-plythe-perrett-vs-unknown-on-3-february-1927","title":{"rendered":"In Re: William Plythe Perrett vs Unknown on 3 February, 1927"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">In Re: William Plythe Perrett vs Unknown on 3 February, 1927<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 105 Ind Cas 448<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Waller, M Nair<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">1. We think that the conviction is right. The evidence is clear that the furniture was entrusted to the appellant by the Official Assignee for the purpose of continuing his business and that, in breach of trust, the appellant disposes of it to various other persons. It is urged that the offences committed fell under <a href=\"\/doc\/388958\/\" id=\"a_1\">Section 103<\/a> of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act and that the jurisdiction of the Magistrate was thereby excluded. Assuming that the facts proved do amount to an offence under <a href=\"\/doc\/388958\/\" id=\"a_1\">Section 103(6)(2)<\/a> of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, which is not clear, we do not think that the Magistrate had no jurisdiction, vide <a href=\"\/doc\/1990858\/\" id=\"a_2\">Segu Balliah v. Ramasamiah<\/a> 42 Ind. Cas. 608 : 6 L.W. 283 : 18 Cr. L.J. 992.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">2. The sentence is not excessive. The appeal is dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court In Re: William Plythe Perrett vs Unknown on 3 February, 1927 Equivalent citations: 105 Ind Cas 448 Bench: Waller, M Nair JUDGMENT 1. We think that the conviction is right. The evidence is clear that the furniture was entrusted to the appellant by the Official Assignee for the purpose of continuing his [&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-267366","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: William Plythe Perrett vs Unknown on 3 February, 1927 - 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-william-plythe-perrett-vs-unknown-on-3-february-1927\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Re: William Plythe Perrett vs Unknown on 3 February, 1927 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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