Supreme Court of India

Mushtak Hussein v. The State of Bombay

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Bench Mehr Chand Mahajan, Vivian Bose and Jagannadhadas JJ.
Decided 30 March 1953

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Criminal trial-Charge to jury-Mis-direction-Powers of appellate Court-Power of appellate Court to go into the whole ease to determine whether there has been failure of justice-Practice­ Appellate Court-Summary 1·ejection of appeal-D1'ty to state reasons in arguahle cases. In his charge to the jury the Judge told them that the oase before them was a jig saw puzzle with some missing links and directed them to use their ingenuity to piece them together by finding out the probabilities and seeing whether they could success­ fully solve the puzzle.

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