Judgement

This was a petition for special leave to appeal from a conviction by the High Court, dated the 13th of June, 1892, under sects. 511 and 420 of the Penal Code.

It stated that the Petitioner had been convicted of (1.) an attempt to cheat and thereby fraudulently to induce the Comp troller-General to deliver to him or to Asad Ali a Government promissory note, No. 9764, for Bs.500, and pay the accrued interest thereon ; (2.) conspiracy with Asad Alt with that object; (3.) abetment of an attempt by Asad Ali; and had been sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment.

An application had been made on the 1st of December, 1892, under sect. 32 of the High Court Charter of 1866, that the Petitioners case might be declared a fit and proper one for appeal to Her Majesty on the ground that the jury had been misdirected to the effect that the acts covered by the evidence amounted to an attempt at cheating within the meaning of the Penal Code, and had been refused.

The charge related to a lost Government promissory note for Rs.500, No. 9764, with arrears of interest thereon from 1865, which belonged to the representatives of one Mirza Husain Ali, and was to the effect that the Petitioner