THE QUEEN v. PERERA.

D. C. (Crim.), Colombo, 1,488/44,279.

Using as genuine a forged valuable security-District Court-Jurisdiction-Ceylon Penal Code, ss. 456, 459, and 392-Ordinance 1 of 1888, 8. 11.

Under section 11of Ordinance No. 1 of 1888, District Courts have jurisdiction to try the offence of uttering all forged documents in the nature of valuable securities knowing the same to be forged, although the offence of forging such documents is triable only by the Supreme Court.

THE accused, who was clerk and interpreter of the Itinerating Police Magistrate, Western Province, was charged (1) with fraudulently and dishonestly using as genuine a forged document purporting to be a valuable security, knowing the same to be forged, an offence punishable under sections 456 and 459 of the Ceylon Penal Code; and (2) with criminal breach of trust as a public servant, an offence under section 392 of the Penal Code.

At the trial the accused's counsel took objection to the jurisdiction of the District Court on the ground that the offence laid in the indictment was abetment under section 459 of forgery of a document of the class mentioned in sec