RODRIGO v. FERNANDO.

P. C, Kalutara, 7,043.

Criminal Procedure Code, s. 190-Recording verdict forthwith after hearing- Criminal trespass by landlord on premises occupied by tenant-Entry into garden.

It is important that a Magistrate should observe the requirements of section 190 of the Criminal Procedure Code as to the duty of recording his verdict of acquittal or guilty forthwith after hearing the evidence for the prosecution and defence.

An entry by the landlord into his garden let to a tenant, with intent to commit an offence or to annoy him, is criminal trespass.

THIS was a prosecution for criminal trespass by a tenant against his landlord and those who had helped him in the offence.

The complainant, in giving his evidence, said that under a notarial lease he was in occupation of a house belonging to the first accused, with liberty to complete a half-built house and put up any other building that might be necessary on the premises wherein the house stood; that he, with the view of erecting a shed for his horse and carriage, directed a cooly to prepare a piece of ground adjoining his house in order to put up the stables; and that when t