1949 (11) TMI 9

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....rt was justified in law or in equity in convicting him over again for not having paid that very assessment in full. The learned Public Prosecutor cannot say why the principle of "austrefois acquit" should not be applied here and the petitioner acquitted. This is not, like a continuing trespass, a fresh offence every day. Though the old section (Section 15 of the Madras General Sales Tax Act of ....