1921 Present: De Sampayo J.

KHAN v. PERERA

P. C. Kalutara, 58,532.

Ordinance No, 35 of 1917-Intermeddling with suitors-Inducing a witness to give evidence, in a particular way-Is witness a person having business in Court ?

A person who approaches a witness who has come to give evidence in a Court and tries to influence him to give evidence in a particular way is liable to be prosecuted under section 5 of Ordinance No. 35 of 1917,

THE facts appear from the judgment.

R. L. Pereira, for appellant.

September 1, 1921, DE SAMPAYO J.--

The accused has been charged under Ordinance No. 35 of 1917 with having accosted one Edmund, who had come to Court to give evidence in connection with a case to be tried on that day. It appears that accused's brother. Kaitan, was charged by a cattle seizer with having obstructed him in the discharge of his duties by preventing the seizure of an animal. That case was on for trial on June 6 last, The man Edmund, though not summoned as a witness, had come to give evidence for the prosecution. The accused had also come as a witness in some other case, but no doubt he knew about the case against his brother fixed for t