Commonwealth v. Watts

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

Combining the several complaints of defendant on turned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree with penalty of life imprisonment.

Defendant was charged with the murder of his wife, Ollie Watts. They had been married for ten years but were living apart, he with his mother and she with hers. There were two children of the marriage, a son Ronald, nine years of age at the time of the trial, and a daughter Eunice, aged eight. During the summer of 1946 Ronald was staying with his father and paternal grandmother, and Eunice was spending a week-end there;…