N.P.SINGH, J.

1. Both the appellants have been convicted u/S. 302 of the I.P.C. for committing murder of Sheo Pujan Bhagat and have been sentenced to imprisonment for life.

2. The Prosecution case, as set out in the first information report, Ext. 2, is that on 18-3-1975 the informant Janki Bhagat, P.W. 9 learnt that the appellants alon gwith other accused 15-20 unknown persons, armed with various weapons were harvesting Rahar Crop from his field, bearing plot No. 1331 of village Nautan. The informant, alon gwith Brij Bihari Prasad, P.W. 1 Rama Pandey, P.W. 3 Raghunath Rai P.W. 5, Parsuram Pandey P.W. 6 and some other villagers went there and protested whereupon appellant Satya Narain Bhagat, who was armed with a Bhala and Jai Prakash Bhagat with a Farsa, chased them, along with other accused through the field of Sheo Pujan Bhagat, since deceased. The deceased who was upfooting line seed plants from his field, situated adjacent north of the informants field, along with his brother Sheojee Bhagat, P.W. 2 protested and told them not to trample his crop upon which appellant Satya Narain Bhagat gave two Bhala blows to the deceased causing incised wound on the left side of his ch