Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 406 · Decided 26 March 2008
Golla Yelugu Govindu v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 406 · [2008] 5 S.C.R. 500
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 556/2008
- Decided
- 26 March 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P. SATHASIVAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 302, 300; Evidence Act Section 118
Headnote
500 A GOLLA YELUGU GOVINDU .- v. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH (Criminal Appeal No.556 of 2008) B MARCH 26, 2008 (DR. ARIJIT PASAYAT AND P. SATHASIVAM, JJ.) Penal Code, 1860: s.304, Patt I - Pursuant to exchange of hot words and c quarrel, accused hacked his wife on her back and neck with a sickle of 10 years - Accordingly conviction altered. D s.300, Exception 4 - Applicability of- Discussed. ,-. Evidence Act, 1872 - s. 118 - Testimony of child witness - Evidentiary value of - Held: Child of tender age can be allowed to testify if he has intellectual capacity to understand E questions
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