Commonwealth v. Bement

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clarke

Certifying the law.

Appellee was indicted and tried for murder. Tlie jury failing to agree, and complaining of tke court’s rulings upon the admissibility of certain evidence and the refusal to qualify the self-defense instruction the Commonwealth has appealed for a certification of the law.

Defendant admitted killing decedent, Otto Huddles-ton, by stabbing him with a knife, but claimed to have done so only in his necessary self-defense and after decedent had struck at him with a knife. At the time decedent was sitting in his automobile and under the…