McCabe v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
July Term, 1886, No. 109, E. D. Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Wayne County to review a judgment on conviction of murder in the first degree. The facts and questions raised are fully set out in the following charge to the jury in the court by Seeley, P. J. The defendant is charged before you with the crime of murder. Murder is the unlawful and malicious taking of human life.
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July Term, 1886, No. 109, E. D. Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Wayne County to review a judgment on conviction of murder in the first degree. The facts and questions raised are fully set out in the following charge to the jury in the court by Seeley, P. J. The defendant is charged before you with the crime of murder. Murder is the unlawful and malicious taking of human life. Whether this defendant is guilty of this offense is for you to determine from the evidence in the case. Before the commonwealth may ask you to render a verdict of guilty she must satisfy you by evidence,…
1Per curiam
After a careful examination of the several exceptions taken by the counsel for the defendant, to the rulings and charge of the court helow, we find none that we can sustain. There are, perhaps, some things omitted from the charge that might well have been in it, but the trial judge cannot think of everything, and if counsel neglect to call his attention, by points properly drawn, to the instructions they require, they may be regarded as unimportant. At all events, we will not reverse on account of such omissions, unless they are of a character more serious than those found in this case. On…
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