Karnataka Court December 1956 Judgments

Channabasappa Vs. State of Mysore

Court: Karnataka

Reported in: AIR1957Kant68; AIR1957Mys68; 1957CriLJ985; ILR1956KAR414; (1957)35MysLJ76

1. This is an unfortunate case in which the Appellant who is aged about 30 years stands convicted of offences under Sections 302 and 324, I P. C., for having caused hurt to his mother and death of his father by striking them with a knife on the morning of 24th September 1955 apparently for the reason that the mother tried to persuade him not to injure himself with the knife and the father approached him in horror when there was a cry about the mother being stabbed. The fact that the appellant inflicted wounds on himself, that the mother in fright rushed towards him that she was stabbed with the same instrument, that on arrival of the father he too was struck and killed on the spot is not and cannot be disputed as there is ample evidence-particularly that of his own mother and a neighbour who was present at the time. After the incident the appellant threw the knife aside and stayed unmoved. The examination by the doctor disclosed that the father was dead because of the wounds on the vit...