Commonwealth v. Tenbroeck
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 243, Jan. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Tioga Co., May T., 1918, No. 2, on verdict of murder in the second degree in case of Commonwealth v. John Tenbroeck. Indictment for murder. Before Channell, P. J, Verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, on which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were various rulings on evidence and instructions sufficiently indicated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
This is a homicide case in which defendant was convicted of mnrder of the second degree. Edgar Tenbroeck, a carpenter, fifty-four years of age, resided with his family at Tioga Junction, in Tioga County. At about two o’clock on the afternoon of March 14,1918, he started with his wife and daughter and others to walk toward Lawrenceville to see the high water; but after going a short distance left the party and returned home where his son John, the defendant, then eighteen years of age, had been left alone. Shortly after four o’clock that afternoon the dead body of…
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