1. Four persons, Neharoo, Gohri, Chaitu and Sukhroo, stood their trial in the Court of the Sessions Judge, Raipur, on the charge of the murder of one Dau Satnami of mauza Derba. The deceased Dau was brutally murdered on the night of 2nd May last, and his body was found the following morning on the edge of a tank near the village with his throat out from side to side, his eyes gouged out, and other injuries on the head. All the ornaments which he had been wearing were missing: these included ornaments both of gold and silver. On the previous day the deceased had been with the accused, Chaitu, to a village some distance away, looking for a potential wife. He had already had two wives, one of whom had been turned out as it was found that she offended against the principle of exogamy, and the other had run away from him. He was a man of about 30 years of age, and the post mortem report describes him as stout, which we take to mean ''well-built''. On the evening of Saturday the 2nd of May, after his return he was sitting outside his house where he lived with his grandparents, when Chaitu called him to witness a dance which was going on in another house. He left with Chaitu and w