The agreement between Watan-Boolehand and Parsram which alleged to have been wrongly admitted in evidence was put in at the commencement of the latter's examination in chief to. prove his Position in the firm and his author-{ty to eppotat accused to' manage the branch business of Watanmal Boolchand in Shanghai. Tt was in my opinion admissible for this pur-Pose ud therefore this ground of objection must. fail "(b)—The books of the firm of Watanmal Boolchand were kept in Sindhi and, for the purposes of the trial, translations of entries in them had to be made into English. In the translations pat forward by the Crown certain words appearing in the books were rendered. as "goods sold"; but. the defendant alleges and his allegation was supported Ly a witness for the Crown, one Vaswani, that these words should more properly be. rendered "Amounts carried" to the credit "purchaser account". It was clearly proved at the trial that the transaction to which these words applied did not involve dealings in any manner with any goods' at all, but merely covered certain loans made by defendant to the man Verma who is mentioned in the: charges. The facts were all be-! fore the jury, and the learned Judge told the jury he could seo little' difference between the two forms of rds but that there might be, and "if there is a difference, you, gentlemen, will give it all the value that} is necessary". He certainly does say that the words used were obviously "intended to convey that, the goods had been sold. On the face of it, it shows that goods were sold, whereas they had not been we know it was a loan"; but if there any ambiguity in these words, T think' that the context makes: clear, that the meaning to be put on the translations adduced in evi ence by tke Crown and the defence was left wholly to the consideration of the jury in the light of their Dusiness experience.
Another Ground Disposed of (1) (e)—Counsel for: the accused great stress on this ground of appeal, and argued that the Trial 'Judge told the jury that the topics enumerated were for their decision and therefore practically directed them that all these topics were matters which were' directly involved in the ease and were in fact the issues on which they had' to decide between the accused and the Crown,
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