Commonwealth v. Cavalier

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaefer,

Counsel for appellant, prosecuting this appeal from a conviction of murder of the first degree, call to our attention the fact that at the time of the commission of the crime their client was a boy not quite six months past the age of fourteen years, and contend that he was not mentally responsible for his crime; also that the record discloses trial errors which should cause us to set the verdict aside. Thé killing was cold-blooded, premeditated ■ and atrocious, as the confession of the defendant discloses. Telling of its circumstances, he said: “I was sitting…