Commonwealth v. Barnak

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Maxey,

On December 20, 1945, about 10:45 p.m., Lieutenant Benjamin Clifford Bowman, Jr., ivlio had recently served in the United States Army and was then a student at Lehigh University, was introduced by Gladys Fisher, at the Colonnade Club in Bethlehem, to Mrs. Madeline Barnak. Sixty-five or seventy minutes later he was dying in front of the home of Mrs. Barnak’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schiffner, 211 South Car-lisle Street, Allentown, with a thirty-two caliber bullet in his head.

Mrs. Barnak had not been living with her husband since October 18, 1945, and Lt.…