BASHEER AHMED SAYEED J.:-

Palani Moopan, aged about 24, has been found guilty of murder of his wife, Karuppayee, aged about 20, on 26-1-1954 at Kuppandampalayam, by inflicting injuries with a tappers knife and has been sentenced to death subject to confirmation by this court by the learned Additional Sessions Judge of Coimbatore Division.

2. The prosecution case is this. In January 1953, the appellant and the deceased were married. They lived together happily for three months. Thereafter misunderstandings arose between them by reason of misconduct of the appellant exhibited in beating and abusing his wife. Constantly the appellant quarrelled with his wife. Consequent upon such beating and ill-treatment, his wife, the deceased, used to go to her parents house. Sometime thereafter, a panchayat was held and the deceased returned to the appellants house. Even after such return, there were frequent quarrels between them. After some days subsequent to the return of the deceased to the appellants house, the appellant shifted to his sisters house leaving his wife in his house. On 26-1-1954, the deceased went to a shandy in Kewani village situated just three miles away from Kuppandam