JUDGMENT

P.B.Suresh Kumar, J.

The sole accused in S.C.No.796 of 2015 on the files of the Additional Sessions Court-IV, Thiruvananthapuram is the appellant. He challenges in this appeal, the conviction entered and the sentence passed against him in the said case.

2. The case of the prosecution as disclosed in the final report is that on 26.08.2014, at about 7.30 a.m., while the accused and his mother Lilly were walking together through the by-lane near their house, the accused picked up a quarrel with Lilly for not having given him money for consuming alcohol and hit her successively using a granite stone. It was also the case of the prosecution that when Raymond, one of their neighbours intervened in the quarrel, the accused hit Raymond also using the granite stone and when Raymond warded off the hit, the stone fell on his leg causing injuries. It was the further case of the prosecution that the accused hit the granddaughter of Raymond also on her face. The mother of the accused died later on 29.08.2014 on account of the injuries sustained by her in the occurrence.

3. A case was registered on the date of occurrence by Poonthura Police based on the statement given by Raymond as Crime N