King, J.

1. This is an appeal from jail by one Chinna Hanumakka who has been convicted by the learned Sessions Judge of Bellary of the murder of her husband and sentenced to transportation for life. Mr. Basi Reddi has very kindly consented to act as amicus curia and we are grateful to him for his presentation of the case.

2. The prosecution case was that the appellant murdered her husband Thippanna on the night of the 29th of January last by poisoning him, the method of poisoning being by putting aconite powder into his evening meal. There can be no doubt, as found by the learned Sessions Judge, that this powder was introduced into the deceaseds food on that occasion. Although the appellant denied everything in evidence against her at the trial, the evidence shows conclusively that she introduced the poison into her husbands food. She made a statement to that effect not only to several of the witnesses on the same night, but also in a formal statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, before the Sub-Magistrate of Adoni on the 3rd of February, and now in her petition from jail she has given up her futile attempt to maintain that the whole case against her is fa