JUDGMENT

Ryves, J. - Musammat Anandi was convicted by the learned Sessions Judge of Muttra of the murder of a boy Har Charan and sentenced to transportation for life. She has appealed. There is no doubt whatever that the child, Har Charan, was left alone in the house with Musammat Anandi on the morning of the 19th of October 1921 while the other women inmates of the house had gone to the village well. The male members of the family were already out at work in the fields. When the women returned from the well they found the outer door chained from the inside. It was opened by the accused and they noticed blood about and on the cot on which the child had been sleeping when they left the house; they found the dead body of the child with its throat cut. The accused apparently was in the same room. They asked the accused what she had done and she said that she had destroyed Poorna's issue. A report was made and the accused was taken into custody that same day. It is in evidence that she attempted to run out of the house either with the intention of escaping or of jumping down a well. She was caught, however, and tied up by the Chaukidar. After being taken to the Police Station it appears