( 1 ) THIS is a revision petition preferred by the petitioner-accused against the judgment of the larned Sessions Judge, Mercara, in criminal Appeal No. 12 of 1955, confirming that of the learned munsiff and First Class Magistrate, Mercara, in C. C. No. 296 of 1954 convicting him of an offence under Section 243 I. P. C. and sentencing him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and also to pay a fine of Rs. 500 and in default to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a further period of three months.

( 2 ) THE facts that have given rise to this petition are briefly as follows : the accused was charge-sheeted for an offence under Section 243 I. P. C. in the Court of the learned Munsiff and First Class magistrate, Mercara, and the case for the prosecution was that on 23-11-1953 the accused was found in fraudulent possession of four counterfeit India Government Rupee coins of 1947 pattern having known at the time he became possessed of them that they were counterfeit and that he thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 243 I. P. C. The accused pleaded not guilty to a charge framed under the above section but the learned Magistrate ultimately convicted and sentenced the pe

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