Krishnaswami Nayudu, J.- These appeals are against the conviction and, sentence of the two appellants at the Fourth Criminal Sessions, 1955, the 2nd accused being the appellant in Crl. Appeal No. 74 of 1956 and the 1st accused being the appellant in Crl. Appeal No. 95 of 1956. Leave to appeal was granted under section 411-A(1)(a) and (b) of the Criminal Procedure Code by this Court.

The first accused Raghavan was charged under sections 419 and 467, Indian Penal Code for having cheated one Pushparaj, a postman attached to the Saidapet post office, by pretending to be one Krishnan and inducing the said Pushparaj to deliver to him Rs. 25 covered by Telegraph Money Order No. 2637 dated 28th December, 1954, intended for the said Krishnan and in the course of the same transaction for having forged the receipt and acknowledgment in the said Telegraph Money Order. The second accused K.K. Swami was charged with having abetted the commission of the said offence and therefore committed offences punishable under sections 419 and 467 read with 114, Indian Penal Code. The 1st accused pleaded guilty. The 2nd accused entered a plea of ‘not guilty’. A jury was empanelled and the trial was proceeded

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