Supreme Court · 1978 INSC 238 · Decided 22 November 1978
K. Gopal Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1978 INSC 238 · [1979] 2 S.C.R. 363
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 133/1975
- Decided
- 22 November 1978
- Bench
- JASWANT SINGH, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
REDDY V. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH November 22, 1978 (JASWANT SINGH AND 0. CHINNAPPA REDDY, JJ.j Supreme Court (Enlargement of Criminal Appellate JurisdictkJn) Act, 1970-Appellant acquitted by trial court on the ground that two views were pcssible on the evidence-High Court convtcted and sentenced of his wife. The trial court acquitted him on the ground that the prosecution had failed to establish any motive for the offence, that the evidence of the prosecution witnesses was discrepant, conflicting and improbable and that when two views were possible on the basis of two divergent versions
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