(1.) THIS is a Criminal Appeal filed by the accused -Sellamuthu alias Chinnappan against the judgment dated 15.3.1983 in S.C.No.53 of 1982 on the file of the Court of the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Erode, finding him guilty under Sec.302, I.P.C., convicting him thereunder and sentencing him to undergo imprisonment for life.
(2.) THE case of the prosecution is that on 10.7.1981 at about 6 p.m., in Cumbanchettikkadu at Sadayapalayamhamlet of Dasanaickenpatti, the accused/appellant herein committed murder by intentionally causing the death of Ponnusamy by cutting him with an aruval on his head, as a result of which he died later in the hospital, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Sec.302, I.P.C. When the charge was read over and explained to the accused/ appellant herein in Tamil by the Lower Court, he pleaded not guilty.
(3.) THE case of the prosecution in brief is as follows: