JUDGMENT :

(C. Praveen Kumar, J.)

The present Criminal Appeal came to be filed under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 against the judgment, dated 16.10.2015, in Sessions Case No.136 of 2012 on the file of the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Nellore.

2. Sole accused in Sessions Case No.136 of 2012 is the appellant herein. He was tried for an offence punishable under Section 302 I.P.C. for causing the death of one Kande Narasimhulu (hereinafter, referred to as “the deceased”) on 15. 12.2010 during night hours, after 8:00 P.M. at the motor shed situated in the fields of one Syed Khaja Rasool at Renamala Village of Kondapuram Mandal, by beating him with a stick indiscriminately all over his body.

3. Vide judgment, dated 16.10.2015, the learned Sessions Judge convicted the accused for the offence punishable under Section 302 I.P.C. and accordingly, sentenced him to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.500/-, in default of payment of fine, to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of one month.

4. The facts, as spelt out from the evidence of prosecution witnesses, are as under:-

P.W.1 is the wife of the deceased and P.W.11 is the daughter of the decea