Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
When death or hurt has been caused by a blow from a stick or other weapon, or when any person is convicted of the offence of being in illegal possession thereof, the description and dimensions of the weapon should be stated in the proceedings with such particularity as may enable the appellate or revisional Court to form an opinion as to the description or nature of the weapon and the intention with which it was probably used, and to enable such Court to judge the gravity of the offence and the appropriateness of the sentence. The mere entry, i.e., a stick or a stone in the list is not sufficient to enable the higher Court to judge whether the stick or the stone was deadly or a comparatively less harmful weapon or to judge the gravity of the offence and the appropriateness of the sentence passed.