AHMAD, C. J.

( 1 ) THE appellant Dasu Paik-rani a young woman of twenty years of age has been convicted under Section 302 Indian Penal Code and sentenced to transportation for life for having committed the murder of one female child, Sukri by name, aged about ten years, by assaulting her with a stone. She has also been convicted under Section 392 Indian Penal Code, for having robbed the child of the the gold and silver ornaments which she was then wearing on her person, but no separate sentence has been awarded thereunder.

( 2 ) THE family of the appellant's parents are the residents of village Sastiguda. She has been since her marriage living with her husband in village Karanjiguda which is at a distance of about six miles from the village of her parents family. The present occurrence is said to have taken place on the 27th January 1963 at about 10 a. m. It is said that about a fortnight before she had gone from her husband's place to her parents village of Sastiguda and had been living with the father of P. W. 1. Nila Paikani who is his brother. The parents of the female child Sukri, namely Sambaru Patra (P. W. 3) and his wife Padma Paikani P. W. 4 are also residents of Sastigu