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The above are only broad guidelines and not cast iron imperatives. In most cases, their observance will facilitate the task of the Court. But sometimes the facts are so intertwined and the second and the third stages so telescoped into each, that it may not be convenient to give a separate treatment to the matters involved in the second and third stages. The position was illuminatingly highlighted by the this Court in State of Andhra Pradesh v. Rayavarapu Punnayya (1976 (4) SCC 382). In the case at hand, the evidence of the witnesses was that the three appellants had indiscriminately stabbed the deceased, though their object was to rob deceased. As established by evidence of eye-witnesses the accused persons expected resistance and all the three were armed with knives. It cannot be said that they expected no resistance even if they intended to rob a huge sum of money. The intended object was to get the money. When there was expected resistance by the deceased, they went on giving stabs with the knives till the deceased lost his life and thereafter the cash and the demand drafts were snatched. It is the intention prevailing at the time of assaults, which determines the applicability of the relevant provisions. One of the factors which appears to have weighed with the trial court, and on which the reliance was placed to alter conviction to Section 304 Part I was the finding that the two injuries which were stated by the doctor PW8 to be sufficient to cause the death were possible by fall. A reading of the post-mortem report indicates that several injuries were stated by the doctor to be the cause of death and the two injuries noticed by the trial court were not the only ones. In fact, injury no.5 i.e. stab injury was one of them. There were six stab wounds. The doctor stated injury Nos. 5, 7 and 11 and internal injuries 1 and 2 were sufficient to cause death in the normal course of nature. Much was made by the trial Court of the statement of PW-8 to the effect that cause of death could be stab wounds associated with head injury. It was, however, not noticed that the doctor clarified to the following effect: "The Stab wounds as well as the head injury are individually sufficient to cause death". The stab wounds came first and then the possible fall. Taking into account the totality of the circumstances the conviction recorded by the High court under Section 302 IPC cannot be faulted.