1946 Present : Soertsz A. C. J, (President), Wijeyewardene and
Canakeratne JJ.

THE KING v. EDWIN et al.

APPEALS  59-60.

S. C. 99-M. C. Gampaha, 27,853.

Court of Criminal Appeal-Sentence-Reduction when excessive

The Court of Criminal Appeal will reduce a sentence when it is manifestly excessive.

APPEALS, with leave obtained, against two convictions in a trial before the Supreme Court.

             G. E. Chitty, for the appellants.

             H. A. Wijeyeratne, C.C., for the Crown.

December 6, 1946. SOERTSZ A.C.J.-

This is an appeal, with leave obtained, only against the sentences passed on the two appellants on a conviction in the case of each of them of the offence of attempt to commit murder. There is some significance, we think, in the fact that three Judges on an earlier occasion thought fit to give the appellants leave to appeal in this case, and, speaking for the three of us now on the Bench, each of us has reacted in the same manner on hearing the sentence that was imposed on the two appellants. This is not adduced as a strong argument in support of the order we are about to make, but it is put forward as a matter which has som