( 1. ) THIS is an appeal from Jail by the accused-appellant Devraj against his conviction under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentence for life imprisonment passed by the Sessions Judge, Rewa in Sessions Trial no. 53 of 1975 decided on 1-11-1975.

( 2. ) THE facts in brief, as alleged by the prosecution against the accused-appellant, are that he committed murder of his wife Mst. Chandravati sometime about midnoon of 11th June, 1975 at village mouza Negura, P. S. Jeva, district Rewa. The reason attributed for the alleged crime was that the deceased Mst. Chandravati was having illicit pregnancy and was not disclosing the name of her paramour to the accused-appellant. Before commission of the murder, the accused-appellant gave liquor mixed with poisonous substance (arsenic) for drinking to his wife and thereafter he chopped her into 15 pieces by Tangiya (Article A ). In the same afternoon he made extra judicial confession on his own to Arjanath Singh (P. W. 3) for having committed murder of his wife. Subsequently when village people including Chowkidar Shivdhari (P. W. 2) gathered there, in their presence as well the accused- appellant alleged to have made the extra