CHRISTINAHAMY et al., Appellants, and CONDERLAG,
INSPECTOR OP POLICE, Respondent.

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The first accused was charged, under section 402 of the Penal Code, with having cheated by personation a Magistrate by pretending to him that she was the lawful mother of a girl and thereby dishonestly induced huh to deliver the girl to her.

According to the evidence, the Magistrate had, acting on the false statement of the accused that she was the mother of the girl, made an order that the accused should be given a letter of authority to remove the girl from a remand Home where she had been ordered to be kept. until her parents came and took her over; the accused subsequently appeared at the remand Home with the order and removed the girt.

that the accused could not be convicted under either the first part or the second part of section 398 of the Penal Code.

against two convictions from the Magistrates Court of Colombo south.

, for the 1st accused, appellant.

, K. C. (with him , for the 2nd accused, appellant.

, C.C., for the Attorney-General.

The first accused appeals from her conviction by the

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