Commonwealth v. Sloat

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

Appellant, found guilty of murder of the first degree with the penalty fixed at death, urges upon us that his conviction should be set aside: (1) because the Commonwealth did not establish the commission of the crime within the jurisdiction of the court, (2) because the district attorney made improper statements to the jury, (8) because the court on defendant’s motion did not exclude certain of the Commonwealth’s witnesses from the court room while another of its witnesses was testifying, (4) because of alleged prejudicial comments of the trial judge upon the…