Opanowich v. Commonwealth

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The defendant, Mrs. Viola Opanowich, has been sentenced to serve twelve years in the penitentiary for killing her infant son, pursuant to the verdict of a jury finding her guilty of murder in the second degree. She asks us to reverse and set aside the judgment of conviction as contrary to the law and the evidence. More specifically, she contends that the evidence did not establish the corpus delicti, that the trial court erred in admitting and rejecting certain evidence, and in granting an instruction defining the several degrees of homicide.

The evidence of the Commonwealth showed the…