JUDGMENT :

A.D. Jagadish Chandira, J.

This Criminal Appeal is filed, against the judgment of conviction and sentence, dated 31.05.2017, made in SC.No.16 of 2017, on the file of the Additional Sessions Judge-Mahalir Neethi Mandram (FTC Mahila Court) Erode, thereby convicting and sentencing the Appellant/accused, for the offence under Section 302 of IPC to undergo life imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000/-, in default to undergo two years Simple Imprisonment.

2. The case of the Prosecution is as follows :-

(a). The deceased, Perumayee is the wife of the Appellant/accused and they were living with their son, Erusappan, PW.1 and his wife, Rukmani, PW.2. There were quarrels and disputes, between the deceased and the Appellant/accused, since the Appellant was in illicit relationship with another lady. On 13.10.2014, at 6.15 p.m. pursuant to a quarrel between the accused and the deceased, the Appellant/accused, with an intention to murder his wife, assaulted on her head, with a casuarina log, due to which she sustained grievous injuries and immediately, she was admitted in the Government Hospital, Erode and thereafter, after five days, referred to Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College