Judgment

HEDGE, J.: The appellants and one Boya Ranudu were charged with the murders of Boya Thimmiah and Boya Sanjeevu as well as some other lesser offences at about 8 a.m. on September 8, 1964 near mile stone No 81/2 on the Dharmavaram - Kalyandurg road. They were tried by the learned District Judge, Anantapur for those offences. The learned District Judge disbelieving the witnesses who spoke to the incident viz. P. Ws. 1 to 3 acquitted all the accused. As against that decision of the learned District Judge, the State went up in appeal to the High Court of Andhra Pradesh The High Court accepted the appeal so far as the appellants (Accused 1 to 5) are concerned and convicted them under various charges including one under S. 302/149, I.P.C. for which offence all of them were sentenced for imprisonment for life. It is not necessary to refer to the other charges because those charges are interwoven with the offence of murder. No arguments were addressed to us about those charges separately. The question for decision is whether the incident spoken to by the P. Ws 1 to 3 is true? If we accept the evidence regarding the incident, there is no doubt that the accused are guilty of the offen