JUDGMENT :

[C. Praveen Kumar, J.]

1. The sole accused in Sessions Case No. 80 of 2013 on the file of X Additional District and Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam at Anakapalle, is the appellant herein. He was tried for the offence punishable under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code [‘I.P.C.’] for causing the death of one Guntla Ramana [‘deceased’] on 08.02.2013 at 9:30 hours in Sammangi Apparao’s Zirayath land, Bapadupalem Village, Paravada Mandal. By its Judgment, dated 22.09.2014, the learned Sessions Judge convicted the accused for the offence punishable under Section 302 I.P.C. and sentenced him to suffer imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 500/-in default to suffer simple imprisonment for three months.

2. The facts, as culled out from the evidence of the prosecution witnesses, are as under:

i) PW2 is the wife of the deceased; PW3 is the junior paternal aunt of PW2, while the accused is the younger brother of PW2.

ii) It is said that, on 08.02.2013 at about 10.00 a.m., the accused and the deceased went to painting work and, thereafter returned home at 6.00 p.m. on that day; while PW2 and her mother, by name, Sanyasamma [PW3] along with deceased were present in the house, th