JUDGMENT

(Judgment was delivered by N. SATHISH KUMAR, J.)

Aggrieved over the judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Mahila Court, Salem, in S.C.No.210 of 2017, dated 29.11.2018, convicting the appellant/accused for the offence under Section 302 IPC and sentencing him to undergo life imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.10,000/-, in default, to undergo six months simple imprisonment, the accused has filed the present appeal.

2.The case of the prosecution is as follows :

2.1. P.W.1 and accused were working in a hotel owned by one Devadas. PW5 joined the accused in a hotel job for daily wages for Rs.500- 600/- per day. The accused was staying in the hotel itself. PW7 is owning the print press near the hotel run by PW2's father Devadas. The accused was working as Parotta Master in the hotel and used to stay in the hotel. On the date of occurrence, as usual when PW1, Devadass and PW7 went to hotel, since the shutter could not be opened, they forcibly opened the shutter, at the time, PW1 and PW7 and Devadass saw the accused with the knife and ran away from the place of occurrence. When PW1 and PW7 went inside, they found the deceased with severe cut injur