Commonwealth v. Ellsworth

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

In this homicide trial did the trial judge commit reversible error in permitting the Commonwealth to introduce into evidence against the defendant Ells-worth declarations made, in Ellsworth’s absence, by one Wilson, allegedly Ellsworth’s co-conspirator, which declarations — in large part narrations of past events— implicated Ellsworth in the homicide and were made after both Wilson and Ellsworth had been arrested and incarcerated?

On July 4,1955, Lulu Rossman, a 76 year old widow, was found dead in a hotel room in Philadelphia. Her death was due to a…