Govinda Menon, J.-Accused I and 2 in S. C. No. 107 of 1949 on the file of the Court of Session, Coimbatore division, have been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of one Giri Gowda just after dusk on the 23rd October, 1948, at the village of Doddinduvadi in Coimbatore district. They were also convicted under section 201, Indian Penal Code, for causing disappearance of the evidence of murder. There were two other charges, viz, that against first accused with having caused simple hurt to Siddha Chetty (P.W.3) and the second accused with having caused simple hurt to Siddha Gowda (P.W.1). For these minor offences the first accused was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two months and the second accused also to rigorous imprisonment for the same period. The third accused who is the appellant in C. A. No. 650 of 1949 was found guilty of an offence under section 201, Indian Penal Code, along with accused 1 and 2 and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for five years. The referred trial and the appeals by the accused have been heard together and we have heard arguments from Mr. V. Rajagopalachari for accused 1 and 2 and from Mr. P.S.Balakrishna Aiyar for the third ac