Burn, J.

1. The appellant was tried by the learned Sessions Judge of Coimbatore on a charge of murder (Section 302) and two charges of administering poison with intent to commit an offence. The facts found against him were that on the night of the 6th December last at Pollachi he gave some food with which dhatura was mixed to three Malayalees in order that he might rob them of whatever they had on their person. The three men were found next morning lying out in the open and they were taken to the hospital. The medical evidence showed that all of them had been given dhatura. Two of them recovered completely. The third developed pneumonia and died on the 13th December,

2. There is no reason to differ from the finding of the learned Sessions Judge with regard to these facts. The learned Public Prosecutor has taken me through the evidence of the important prosecution witnesses, P.Ws. 1 and 2. These are the two men who recovered from the dhatura poisoning. P.W. 1 is the son of the deceased. This man identified the accused at parades held on different dates some time after the Occurrence. The accused at the trial merely pleaded that he knew nothing and that the case was false. He w