Present: Lyall Grant J.

HERATH v. WILLIAM SILVA.

503-P. C. Kalutara, 26,770.

    Wrongful restraint -Obstruction-Act which prevents a person from proceeding along a certain direction-Penal Code, s. 332.

Where the accused was seated in the middle of a road and as a motor lorry approached, got up and walked backwards so that the driver of the lorry could not proceed without running over him,-

Held, that the accused was guilty of the offence of wrongful restraint.

APPEAL from a conviction by the Police Magistrate of Kalutara.

The facts appear from the judgment.

Deraniyagala, for accused, appellant.

Grenier, C.C., for respondent.

 October 23,1928. LYALL GRANT J.

The accused was convicted of having wrongfully restrained , the complainant from proceeding along the Colombo-Galle road in a lorry, an offence punishable under section 332 of the Ceylon Penal Code. The complainant's story, which {was believed by the Police Magistrate, was that he was driving a lorry and that as he was driving the lorry' the accused with one or two others was seated on the middle of the road and as the lorry approached the accused sprang up and walked b