JUDGMENT

RAY, J. :— This is an appeal against the judgment and order made by the High Court of Orissa convicting the appellant u/S. 302of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing her to imprisonment for life. She was also convicted u/s. 201 of the Indian Penal Code but no separate sentence has been imposed on her for this offence.

2. The prosecutions case is that on February 19, 1973 at night the appellant along with Nilamoni Patra, brother of the deceased assaulted Rathia Patra, husband of the appellant as a result of which Rathia Patra succumbed to injuries. The dead body was buried in a room of the deceaseds house in order to conceal the death. The FIR was lodged on 1st of March, 1973 by Laxman Behra P.W. 1 in the Keonjhar Garh Police Station. On 2nd March, 1973 the dead body was recovered on the basis of the information given by the appellant after digging out the earth from the room of the deceaseds house in the presence of the Tehsildar, P.W. 6. Thereafter, the post-mortem examination was held on the following day by P.W. 5, Dr. R. P. Choudhury. At the time of the post-mortem examination, the body was in a highly decomposed state. The appellant along with Nilamoni Patra was charge