JUDGMENT :

A.V. Sesha Sai, J.

Sole accused in S.C.No.226 of 2007 on the file of the Court of the learned V Additional District & Sessions Judge (FTC), Guntur is the appellant in the present Criminal Appeal, preferred under Section 374 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

2. Judgment, dated 05.11.2012, rendered in the aforesaid Sessions Case, is under challenge in this appeal. By way of the said judgment, the learned Judge convicted the accused for the offence under Section 302 IPC and sentenced him to suffer life imprisonment and to pay fine of Rs.2000/- and in default to suffer simple imprisonment for one month.

3. The case of the prosecution, in brief, is as follows:

The accused, who is a resident of Venkataraopet, Guntur is the eldest son-in-law of the deceased, one Smt. Kanigiri Polamma, and the deceased owned three terraced houses, one four portioned tiled house and a vacant site of 350 Sq.Yards at Venkataraopet, Guntur. The deceased was blessed with four daughters and son, by name Srinivasa Rao. The daughter of the accused, who is the grand daughter of the deceased, namely Chowdamma, was given in marriage to the said Srinivasa Rao. The deceased gave three terraced houses to her