( 1 ) THE three accused were convicted by the Court of Session, Cuddappah Division, under S. 302 read with S. 34, Penal Code and also under S. 392 read with S. 34, Penal Code and sentenced to death.

( 2 ) ONE Yedoti Subbamma, daughter of Kandula Nagayya of Kandulvaripalle village was brutally murdered on 11-2-1954, near the vanka lying to were of Kumarapalle village. The case of the prosecution is that the deceased Subbamma was the only daughter of Kandula Nagayya, that there were disputes between the deceased and her brother Pedayya and his wife Sitamma and that at the instigation of Sitamma, the three accused who were hired assissins, waylaid the deceased near the vanka and killed her. According to the Prosecution, the murder was committed in the following way. The three accused having been pre-informed of the movements of the deceased, took attrack and awaited the deceased near the aforesaid vanka. When the deceased came that way, accused 3 pelted a stone of the sixe of a big orange at the deceased. The deceased fell down shouting "amms, I am dead. " Accused 1 cut on the neck of the deceased with the bill-hook M. O. 6 Accused 2 was having a bigger bill-hook M. O