Commonwealth v. Bruno, (No. 1)

Opinion by

Me. Justice Deew,

The village of Kelayres, in Kline Township, Schuylkill County, was the scene of a startling and tragic occurrence on the night of November 5,1934, the eve of the general election of that year. Five unarmed men, peacefully occupied, so far as the record shows, were shot and killed on a principal street; and approximately twenty others, men, women and children, were wounded. As a result the appellants, Joseph J. Bruno, Philip Bruno, Alfred Bruno, James Bruno, Arthur Bruno and Anthony Orlando, all related by blood or marriage, were indicted jointly in five indictments…