Mockett, J.

1. Accused 1 and 2 together with one Guddi Peeran were charged before the learned Sessions Judge of Cuddappah with the murder on 12th March 1939 of a woman Golla Nagamma. Guddi Peeran who was accused 3 was acquitted; accused 1 and 2 were convicted and sentenced to death and they now appeal. The plan Ex. P indicates roughly the scene of Nagammas death. She lives at Venkatapuram which is 2i miles from Prodattur. On the 12th March, some time before midday, she was alivE.P.W. 3, her husband, said that she gave him his food before he left for Prodattur, and P.W. 2, her sister, was with her in her house on that morning. Some time after noon she was found dead, having been throttled. There is no doubt whatever that she met her death at about midday on the 12th. No cross-examination was addressed to her sister, P.W. 2, or to her husband, P.W. 3, to suggest that the deceased had in fact met her death long before noon on the 12th, even so early as late on the previous night. This aspect requires a passing reference because the Lady Sub-Assistant Surgeon, relying largely on statements in text-books, was inclined to say that from the appearance of blisters on the body death