Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 508 · Decided 3 December 2002
Joseph v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 508 · [2002] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 439
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 620/1995
- Decided
- 3 December 2002
- Bench
- S. RAJENDRA BABU, ARUN KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302, 307, 341; Evidence Act Section 134
Headnote
B 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 C cogent reasons while acquitting the accused, High Court ought not to have interfered with the same merely of D 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 witness provided such evidence is cogen.t, reliable and inspires confidence. According to the prosecution, PWl and the
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