1 The appellants have been convicted by the Sessions Judge of Quilon for the offence of murder and they have both been awarded the extreme penalty of law. The case against them was that on the night of 13-9-1962 in furtherance of their common intention they caused the death of one Varghese Francis alias Vava.

2 Pw 6 Thankamma is the sister of the first accused. The second accused is her husband. They are all living in one and the same house. The prosecution case is that the accused suspected that the deceased was having illicit intimacy with Pw 6 and they decided to put an end to his life. The case is that on the date of occurrence, when the deceased visited their house the second accused caught hold of him, felled him to the ground and forcibly pressed him down and the first accused cut him with a Knife on his neck causing his instantaneous death. After the occurrence at about 9-30 P. M., the second accused is alleged to have gone to the Quilon West Police Station and lodged the first information statement alleging that the deceased had come to their house and cut his throat and committed suicide. Pw 15 the Sub Inspector of Police registered a case. The next day he went to the scen

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