https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=190567 A voluntary extra-judicial confession can support a murder conviction when it is truthful and made to witnesses with no apparent reason to falsely implicate the accused. Testimony is not discarded merely because a witness is treated as hostile; the court may rely on the credible part of that evidence. Recoveries made pursuant to disclosure statements were treated as proved, and the failure of serological testing to determine the origin of blood did not undermine the recovery where the concealment, the weapon, and the blood-stained articles were otherwise reliably established. On that basis, the confession and recovery evidence were sufficient to connect the accused with the homicide. en-us Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:16:01 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=190567 A voluntary extra-judicial confession can support a murder conviction when it is truthful and made to witnesses with no apparent reason to falsely implicate the accused. Testimony is not discarded merely because a witness is treated as hostile; the court may rely on the credible part of that evidence. Recoveries made pursuant to disclosure statements were treated as proved, and the failure of serological testing to determine the origin of blood did not undermine the recovery where the concealment, the weapon, and the blood-stained articles were otherwise reliably established. On that basis, the confession and recovery evidence were sufficient to connect the accused with the homicide. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=190567