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Serial
No.
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Province.
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Name of
witness.
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Number
of
witness.
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Name of
criminal.
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Witness's view of the
case.
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Result of examining the
records.
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59
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Bengal
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Mr. Ward
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89
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Not given
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A smoker suddenly
murdered
a vendor because he would
not supply him with more
ganja.
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In an altercation the
vendor
"first struck the accused with
a split bamboo; and it was
then that he wounded him
with his knife," which he had
in his hand as he had been
eating fruit.
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60
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Do.
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Do.
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Do.
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Isahak Shekh
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2. A
ganja-smoker cruelly
treated his child. While
under trial and on bail he
hacked at his wife and father-
in-law and killed another
man who came to their
rescue.
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The man cruelly treated
his
child on trifling provocation.
He determined to kill his wife
for giving evidence against
him, and killed a man who
came to her rescue. There is
no mention of ganja.
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61
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Do.
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Dr. Crombie
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104
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Kailash Chandra
Mallik.
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"A Bengali Babu, as
the
result of a single debauch
in an attack of ganja mania,
slew seven of his nearest
relatives in bed during the
night, made a rapid re-
covery, and never again ex-
hibited signs of insanity."
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The Sessions Judge found
that
"for years prisoner has been
peculiar in his behaviour.
After his wife's death [six or
seven years before this occur-
rence] he was quite mad for
a month; and since his mo-
ther's denth again he has
been behaving like a man
bereft of his reason." The
murder was committed on the
evening of his mother's
Shradh; and the man's in-
sane statements after the
murder showed that he had
the idea that the family were
helpless without the mother.
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62
to
64
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Do.
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Mr. Marindin
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16
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Three cases
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No particulars were given
by
witness; but he mentioned
the cases as illustrating homi-
cidal frenzy attributed to
hemp drugs.
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All three were cases of
insani-
ty. In the first case there is
doubtful mention of hemp
drugs. In the other two there
is no mention of these drugs;
but in one of them (the third
case) there is mention of
liquor.
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65
&
66
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Assam
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Mr. Dalrymple
Clark
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14
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Two cases
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The witness after
consulting
his subordinates examined
the records of seven cases of
this character and found two
in which there was mention
of ganja. He gave their
names without details; and
they were sent for.
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In both cases the accused
were
ganja-smokers. But the re-
cord in each case indicates
that the offences cannot be
attributed to that drug. The
one was a quarrel between
some smokers. The other
was a case of wife-branding.
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67
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Do.
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Dr. Mullane
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19
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Ramchandra
Puri
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In 1885 a religious
mendicant
murdered a guest in the
middle of the night appa-
rently while under the influ-
ence of ganja.
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The record suggests the
same
view as the witness holds.
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68
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Do.
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Do.
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Jadu Murha
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2. A man was charged
with
committing murder in the
Dum Duma bazar under
ganja delerium. The wit-
ness does not remember de-
tails.
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2. This man wounded
several
people. He used to drink
liquor and take opium. He
never took ganja. The Judge
found that he had not had
any intoxicant.
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