Commonwealth v. Werntz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 72, July T., 1893, by defendant, William B. Werntz, from judgment of O. & T. Phila. Co., Feb. T., 1893, No. 96, on verdict of guilty. Indictment for murder. Before Gordon, J. At the trial it appeared that, on Jan. 4, 1893, Thomas P. Gallagher was killed in a fight that occurred in a room used for a Republican primary election poll. Three witnesses for the commonwealth, Peter Carey and the Farrells, testified positively that they saw the prisoner stab Gallagher.
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Appeal, No. 72, July T., 1893, by defendant, William B. Werntz, from judgment of O. & T. Phila. Co., Feb. T., 1893, No. 96, on verdict of guilty. Indictment for murder. Before Gordon, J. At the trial it appeared that, on Jan. 4, 1893, Thomas P. Gallagher was killed in a fight that occurred in a room used for a Republican primary election poll. Three witnesses for the commonwealth, Peter Carey and the Farrells, testified positively that they saw the prisoner stab Gallagher. Defendant denied having committed the act, and made various offers to prove declarations of the commonwealth’s witnesses…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
The assignments of error in this case are in entire disregard of our rules, which are plain, specific and mandatorjn The assignments are the pleadings in this court, and are the only part of the case that remains of record here after the remittitur to the court below. They should therefore be self-explanatory and self-sustaining, giving in each assignment separately the offer with so much of the preceding or accompanying evidence *596as is necessary to the proper understanding of the offer, the ruling of the court upon it, and if testimony objected to be admitted so…
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