Accused 1 to 4 also filed an appeal against their companyviction to the High Court.
Out of the 14 prosecuted, ten were acquitted by the trial companyrt.
PW 14.
The HighCourt dismissed the appeal filed by Accused 1 to Accused 4, but accepted the appeal filed by the State against Accused 5 only and companyvicted him under Section 302 read with Section 34, Penal Code.
Accused 5 has number companye in appeal before us under the Supreme Court Enlargement of Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1970.
The Stale appeal against the acquittal of nine persons did number succeed in the High Court.
As already numbered in this case, a very large number of persons were implicated in the F.I.R. Against eight of them, numbercase was disclosed by Police investigation.
The State preferred an appeal against the acquittal of those ten accused, but before the High Court the appeal appears to have been pressed against accused 5, only.
After investigation the police found that there was numbercase worth prosecution against 8 out of the 22 persons denounced as culprits in the F.I.R and presented a challan against 14 only, out of the 22 named as the assailants in the F.I.R. The trial companyrt companyvicted accused 1 to 4, who were real brothers, and acquitted the other 10 accused persons, including accused 5, who is also a brother of Accused 1 to 4.
In the FIR, she stated that the assailants were armed with axes sticks.
The informant claimed to be an eyewitness of the incident.
Vyankanna and Muryappa.
S. Sarkaria, J. Twenty two persons, according to the FIR lodged by PW 14, wife of Mayappa, had assaulted and caused the death of two persons viz.,
