ORDER :- This is a revision which has been filed against the conviction and sentence by the learned Assistant Sessions Judge, Tirunelveli, in Sessions Case No. 78 of 1955 and confirmed by the learned Sessions Judge of Tirunelveli Division in C. A. No. 217 of 1956.

2. V. C. Subramanian Chettiar, the Revision petitioner before me, had married one Pichai Ammal, the only daughter of Sankarakuttalathammal. There was a daughter by that marriage. Sometime afterwards both Pichai Ammal and this daughter died. This Sankarakuttalathammal viz., the ex-mother-in-law of this Revision Petitioner had inherited properties of considerable value from her deceased husband. There was interminable civil litigations about it which came up to High Court and eventually this petitioner got a share of the properties. On account of these litigations there was bitter ill-feeling between this Revision Petitioner and the said Sankarakuttalathammal.

3. P.W. 1 Chitraputran Chettiar had married Sankarakuttalathammals brothers daughter by name Gomathi. There was a son by that marriage. I have just referred to the litigations between Sankarakuttalathammal and this petitioner not only on the civil side which ca