https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175526 In an appeal against acquittal, the appellate court may reappraise the evidence, but it must respect the strengthened presumption of innocence and interfere only where the acquitting view is clearly unreasonable. A conviction may rest on a single eye-witness if the testimony is intrinsically reliable and materially corroborated. Here, the principal witness was supported by the prompt first information, a dying declaration, surrounding circumstances, and recoveries made pursuant to disclosure statements, while medical evidence did not displace the prosecution case. The non-examination of some witnesses and the omission to put one circumstance under section 342 were held not fatal on these facts, and the conviction for murder was upheld. en-us Mon, 27 Aug 1973 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:54:44 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175526 In an appeal against acquittal, the appellate court may reappraise the evidence, but it must respect the strengthened presumption of innocence and interfere only where the acquitting view is clearly unreasonable. A conviction may rest on a single eye-witness if the testimony is intrinsically reliable and materially corroborated. Here, the principal witness was supported by the prompt first information, a dying declaration, surrounding circumstances, and recoveries made pursuant to disclosure statements, while medical evidence did not displace the prosecution case. The non-examination of some witnesses and the omission to put one circumstance under section 342 were held not fatal on these facts, and the conviction for murder was upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 27 Aug 1973 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175526