VENKATARAMAN, J.

This is an appeal against the judgment of the learned Sessions Judge of North Arcot convicting the appellant. Ganesan, of the murder of his wife and sentencing him to imprisonment for life. It is alleged that he cut her with a bill-hook (M.O. 1) in his house at Thiruvannamalai, about 8.30 a.m. on 8-1-1972.

2. They had been married just a few months before. But their marital relationship had not been happy. The appellant had a suspicion, which seems to us to be well founded, that she had been in sexual intimacy with her elder sister's husband, P.W. 6, and further, she had been refusing conjugal felicity to her husband, the appellant, P.W. 1, the eight year old daughter of an other elder sister of the deceased Kamala, was staying temporarily with the appellant and the deceased. On the day in question the appellant asked P.W. 1, to go and get onions. The deceased pointed out that she might be involved in some accident and declined to send her. This alone according to the prosecution, was the motive for the appellant taking the bill-hook nearby and inflicting several cuts on his wife. The murder was witnessed not merely by P.W. 1 but also by P.W. 2, who resid