Supreme Court of India

Joseph v. State of Kerala

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Reported as [2002] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 439
Bench S. Rajendra Babu and Arun Kumar JJ.
Decided 3 December 2002

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From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: Ss. 34, 302, 307 & 341: Murder-Acquittal of one of the accused by Trial Court-High Court convicting that accused-Correctness of-Held, since Trial Court had given cogent reasons while acquitting the accused, High Court ought not to have interfered with the same merely because another opinion is possibl~. Evidence Act, 1872; Section 134: Testimony of Sole eye-witness-Reliance thereupon-Held, evidence of such witness could be accepted if it corroborates with the evidence of other witnesses/other evidence on record-Conviction could be recorded on the evidence of solitary eye

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 distinguished · 2 referred to

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