[1] This is an application for transfer of a criminal case comprising charges for murder and other offences, now pending before the Special Sessions Judge at Warangal, A number of prosecution witnesses have already been examined and during the course of further cross-examination of one of the prosecution witnesses, the Advocate for the accused desired to elicit from the witness the names of persons under whom the witness had hitherto worked as a driver. Unfortunately there was disagreement between the Judge and the Advocate with the result that the Advocate withdrew from the case. We wish to point out that this need not have happened. It is not conducive to the dignity of the Bench or the Bar. On the same day (28.11.1950) the accused filed an application requesting for time to engage another lawyer. The Court gave a day's time and posted the case to the next day. It is futile to expect that in a case of murder when already several witnesses have been examined, it is possible for an accused to engage a fresh lawyer and duly instruct him to proceed with the case, within the next 24 hours. The accused could not engage a lawyer and finding that the Court was proceeding with