Singer Manufacturing Co. V. Paul Perera

 

Present: Mr. Justice Wendt and Mr. Justice Wood Renton.

 

SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. v. PAUL PERERA

 

P. C., Hatton, 6,279.

 

    Appeals in criminal cases-Petition of appeal signed by proctor without proxy-Validity-Criminal Procedure Code, ss. 287, 336, 387, 338, 340 (1), 441.
 
    Where the complainant in a Police Court case appealed with the sanction of the Attorney-General from an acquittal of the accused on certain counts, and the petition of appeal was signed only by the proctor who appeared for the complainant in the Police Court, but who held no proxy from the complainant authorizing him to sign such petition of appeal,-
 
    Held (over-ruling the objection to the hearing of the appeal), that the petition of appeal was in order, and that the appellant was entitled to be heard.
 
WENDT J.-No proxy is required in a criminal case, and District Court proctors are qualified to sign petitions of appeal in criminal
 
APPEAL from an acquittal with the sanction of the Attorney-General. The petition of appeal was signed by the Proctor only, who held no proxy authorizing him to do so.
 
Counsel for the accused-res

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