Thomas. J

This case involves both patricide and matricide, besides severely hacking two neighbours with a sharpened chopper. Prosecution case reveals the story of appellant running berserk during the early hours of 16-10-1987, killing his father and mother after mangling two others. At 4.30 in the morning he gatecrashed into the bed room of a neighbour and showered a fusillade of cuts with the chopper from head to toe, next he dashed into the bed room of another neighbour and did the same thing. He then ran back to his house, caught his father and hacked him with the chopper, and then turned to his mother and did the same thing to her also. His father died instantaneously and his mother died at the hospital on the same day. The other two injured, despite extensive cuts sustained, survived with expert medical aid as they were not destined to the. Learned Sessions Judge found the appellant guilty of offences under Ss.302,307 and 450 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced him to imprisonment for life for the first count, but no separate sentence was awarded for other counts. This appeal has been filed from jail.

2. When judgment finding him guilty of the offences was pronoun