JUDGMENT

D. DASH, J. : The proceeding for confirmation of death sentence and the Jail Criminal Appeal having arisen out of the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 14.05.2013 and 15.05.2013 respectively passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Nabarangpur in C.T. Case No.74 of 2011 have been heard together and are therefore disposed of by this common judgment.

2.The prosecution case is the following :

On 16.07.2011 around 3.30 P.M. the accused Sukuru Majhi holding a Barchhi (Spear) suddenly came out of his house situated at village Bhagatguda in a violent mood without paying any heed to the protest from the side of his wife and his other relations as if in a human haunting spree. It is alleged that he first pierced the spear into the chest of one Dasai Majhi, who was standing in front of her house, causing instantaneous death and then continued with the mission of murder of one after another. One Dinamani and Pitamber when intervened were severely injured with the said spear. It is next alleged that the accused thereafter ran to the nearby field of Kumari Majhi who was working there. Seeing her, the accused inflicted injury on her back with the spear that he was holding and