JUDGMENT

Piggott, J. - The appellant Jawahir has been convicted of an offence punishable u/s 474, Indian Penal Code, in respect of a document, or more strictly speaking of two documents endorsed on separate halves of a sheet of paper, alleged to have been found in his possession. The documents in question are a blank promissory note and a blank receipt. Both purported to be signed by one Bindhayachal. At the top of each of these papers there is an adhesive stamp of one anna; but the signature is not across the stamp nor has the stamp been cancelled in accordance with the provisions of Section 12 of the Indian Stamp Act, No. II of l899. The papers question are blank in this sense, that they are printed forms with none of the particulars tilled in. There is no specification of the person in whose favour either document purports to be executed, nor yet of the date or place of execution, nor yet of the amount of money involved. One document purports on the face of it to be a receipt where by Bindhayachal acknowledges to have received an unspecified some of money, on an unspecified date, from some person not specified. Similarly the other document purports to be a promissory note whereby