{"id":64687,"date":"1931-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1931-02-05T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/c-samuel-aaron-vs-emperor-on-6-february-1931"},"modified":"2018-01-29T05:10:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T23:40:53","slug":"c-samuel-aaron-vs-emperor-on-6-february-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/c-samuel-aaron-vs-emperor-on-6-february-1931","title":{"rendered":"C. Samuel Aaron vs Emperor on 6 February, 1931"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">C. Samuel Aaron vs Emperor on 6 February, 1931<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1931 Mad 440<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Jackson<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p> Jackson, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The petitioner has been fined Rs. 1,000 for harbouring in Cannanore certain persons from Travancore and Cochin who were trying to make salt out of sea water. He agrees that they stopped at his vacant hotel, and there is no doubt that he harboured them. But for a conviction under Section 157, I. P.C., it must be shown that they were hired, engaged or employed, and of that there is really no evidence.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The Police-Inspector P. W. 1 infers that their leader employed them; but one might as well infer that a cricket captain employs his team. It is quite possible that they were all volunteers hired, engaged and employed by no one.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. In that view of the case the conviction cannot stand; the petition is allowed and the fine ordered to be refunded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court C. Samuel Aaron vs Emperor on 6 February, 1931 Equivalent citations: AIR 1931 Mad 440 Author: Jackson ORDER Jackson, J. 1. The petitioner has been fined Rs. 1,000 for harbouring in Cannanore certain persons from Travancore and Cochin who were trying to make salt out of sea water. He agrees that they [&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-64687","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>C. 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