Burn, J.

1. The appellant has been convicted by the learned Sessions Judge of Kurnool of abducting a woman with intent that she might be murdered (Section 364, Penal Code) and also of murdering the same woman (Section 302). He has sentenced the appellant to death for the offence of murder and to transportation for life for abduction. The woman, whom the appellant is said to have abducted and murdered was a Kapa Gouramma, a widow who lived in Rajoli in the Nizams Dominions and also had a house in Kurnool. She had two daughters (P.Ws. 4 and 5) who-were apparently living by prostitution, though P.W. 5 at the time of the murders of Gouramma was said to be in poor state of health. The appellant was on terms of illicit intimacy with the younger daughter, P.W. 4. It is alleged that he was supposed to be paying her Rs. 6, a month but that his payments were irregular and P.W. 4s mother objected to her association with the appellant on account of his meanness. It was alleged that he had once given her a pair of kammals and that on a pretext of being in want of money he had taken them back from her and pledged them. The mother therefore according to the prosecution was trying to break