HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1623 of 2007 JUDGMENT: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice A. Gopal Reddy) This Criminal Appeal is directed against the conviction and sentence recorded in Sessions Case No.87 of 2006 by the learned Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam, vide judgment dated 20.08.2007, whereby and whereunder the appellant herein-sole accused was convicted under Section 235(2) Cr.P.C. for the offence punishable under Section 302 IPC and, accordingly, sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life and also to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/-. When the matter is taken up for final hearing today, learned counsel for the appellant-sole accused has submitted that during pendency of the appeal, the appellant died. Recording the submission of the learned counsel, the Criminal Appeal is dismissed as abated. ____________________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J __________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 13th July, 2011 cbs HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1623 of 2007 13th July, 2011 cbs HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1623 of 2007 Dated:13.07.2011 Between: Sumarla Venkata Ramana … Appellant/ Sole accused And State rep. by Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad … Respondent THIS COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING: