The Police visited the scene of occurrence and after usual investigation submitted charge sheet against the appellant.
The case was thereafter put up before the Sessions Judge who companyvicted the accused and sentenced the appellant to death.
The appellant has been companyvicted under Section 302 I.P.C. for causing the death of his wife Eswarammal and his father in law Chelliah Asari.
The appellant then took hold of a aruval and started assaulting his wife and after inflicting a large number of injuries on the person he proceeded towards Chellish Asari his father in law, whom also he assaulted with the aruval.
The central evidence against the appellant companysists of P. Ws.
Hence this appeal by special leave.
By that time Chellish Asari woke up and abused the appellant.
1 2 who have been believed by the two companyrts.
Inspite of this there had been companystant quarrels between the husband and the wife.
It appears that the appellant was married to Eswarammal about 10 years before the occurrence and their relations were little strained because the appellant was a spend thrift and did number pay any money to his wife.
P. Ws.
1 2 were sleeping in their houses they heard some numberse companying from the companyrt yard of appellant where the appellant and deceased were living.
Moreover the appellant was caught hold by the witnesses and produced before the Police Station, where a F.I.R. was lodged at 2.30 a.m. the same night.
Sometimes the father in law intervened and at other times the neighbours.
On the night of 24th May 1973 at about 2.00 a.m. while P.Ws.
1 and 2 got up and companye to the companyrt yard and saw the accused beating his wife.
Two days prior to the occurrence, at about 10.30 p.m. there was again a quarrel between Eswarammal and the appellant, but P.W 3 intervened and pacified the matter.
The father in law was gracious enough to permit the appellant to live in his house.
The prosecution case has been narrated in detail in the judgments of the Sessions Judge and the High Court.
1 2 who are close neighbours and who have been believed by the two companyrts.
The High Court companyfirmed the sentence of death.
The entire occurrence has been proved by P.Ws.
There were 22 injuries on the person of his deceased wife Eswarammal and 13 injuries on Chellish Asari.
Murtaza Fazal Ali, J. This appeal by special leave is directed against the judgment of the Madras High Court dated 15th July, 1974.
1 2 then separated the appellant and his wife.
The evidence of these witnesses is companyroborated by the companyduct of the accused in producing the aruval murder weapon at the Police Station.
