WALLER
Uggappa Pujari – Appellant
Versus
Emperor – Respondent
Waller, J.
1. Appellant 1 (Pammu, accused 1) has been convicted of the murder of one Rosario Minezes. The 2nd (Uggappa Pujari-Accused 2) has been convicted of having helped her to dispose of the body. The Public Prosecutor has appealed against his acquittal on the charge of murder.
2. The case against appellant 1 is, we think, clear enough quite apart from the admissions that are attributed to her. She and Rosario had been on terms of intimacy but had fallen out shortly before the murder and she had been heard to threaten to kill him. It is proved that, on the night of the murder he was seen entering her house and was never, after that, seen alive and human blood was found in and near her house. She gave up to the police a pole and rope which had apparently been used for transporting the dead body to the place where it was found, and they also were stained with human blood. In addition she is said to have made a full confession to P.W. 10 implicating herself and appellant 2 in the murder. On this we do not propose to rely as it seems to us not unlikely that P.W. 10 knows a great deal more about the affair than he will admit. There is, further, the statement she made to the Co
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