JUDGMENT

1. In this case the accused has been found guilty of culpable homicide, u/s 304 of the Indian Penal Code, of his daughter-in-law under circumstances which, carding to the finding of the lower Court, were simple but tragic. The accused arrived home about the middle of the day and finding the door of the house shained from inside he demanded admittance and discovered his daughter-in-law in the company of a Mubammadan, the woman being of the Bania caste. He seized hold of the man and also of an axe, but being an old man was unable to prevent the escape of the paramour and he thereupon turned upon the young wife and hanked her to death Misting something like sixteen serious injuries including a complete severance of the head from the trunk which, of course, was sufficient to cause instantaneous death. The nature of the injuries indicate plainly that the man was in a frerzy of rage. Whether he saw misconduct or merely drew the obvious inference, which any man of ammo sense would be compelled to draw from the circumstance, is quite immaterial, but it is a question of fact whether his act was the result of grave and sudden proposition sufficient to provoke a person in his position