JUDGMENT :

K. Suresh Reddy, J.

Both the accused in Sessions Case No.398 of 2015 on the file of the learned III Additional District and Sessions Judge, Guntur, are the appellants in the present Criminal Appeal.

2. The appellants/accused were tried and convicted by the learned III Additional District and Sessions Judge, Guntur, for the offence punishable under Section 302 IPC and were sentenced to suffer imprisonment for LIFE and also to pay fine of Rs.10,000/- each.

3. The substance of the charge is that, on 10.02.2011, at about 11.30 AM, both the accused caused the death of the deceased namely Vemula Glori Jayanthi by pressing her face with a pillow, thereby committed the offence punishable under Section 302 IPC.

4. Case of the prosecution, as per the evidence of prosecution witnesses, is as follows.

i) The accused Nos.1 and 2 are none other than the husband and wife. PW.1 is none other than the father of A-1 and husband of the deceased. The deceased is none other than the mother of A-1. All of them are residents of Ponnur Town. PW.1 was having a Lab by name Rupa Clinical Laboratory, which is run by A-1. A portion of the house property situated in Ponnur was gifted by PW.1 to his daughte