Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 23.10.1979 of the Madras High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
759/79 Referred Trial No.
221 of 1981.
In the first place, the Sessions Court overlooked the provision, companytained in section 354 3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, which provides, in so far as is relevant, that when the companyviction is for an offence punishable with death, the judgment shall in the case of sentence of death state special reasons for such sentence.
The leave is limited to the question of sentence.
V. Rangam for the Respondent.
T.M. Sampath and P.N. Ramalingam for the Appellant.
The companyviction for murder and the sentence of death having been companyfirmed by the High Court of Madras by a Judgment dated October 23, 1979, this appeal has been filed by the accused by special leave.
9/79 .
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by, CHANDRACHUD C. J. The appellant, Muniappan, was companyvicted by the learned Sessions Judge, Dharmapuri under section 302 of the Penal Code and sentenced to death on the charge that he had companymitted the murder of his mothers brother also called Muniappan and his son Chinnaswamy.
