[JUDICIAL COMMITTEE]
DON THOMAS SAMARATUNGA APPELLANT; AND THE QUEEN RESPONDENT.
ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF CEYLON.
1958 April 23;
June 3.
VISCOUNT SIMONDS, LORD COHEN, LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM, LORD SOMERVELL OF HARROW and the RT. HON. L. M. D. DE SILVA.
CeylonPerjurySummary statutory powers of courtConstruction and scopeSummary committal as for contempt Criminal Procedure Code (Legislative Enactments of Ceylon, 1938, c. 16), ss. 439 (1), 440 (1) Penal Code (Legislative Enactments of Ceylon, 1938, c. 15), s. 188.

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