Commonwealth v. Evancho

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This comes before us on appeal from the lower court’s refusal to grant a new trial to the appellants who were found guilty by a jury of robbery and assault and battery.

The pertinent facts established by the Commonwealth’s testimony disclose that on the evening of December 24, 1951, at about 8 o’clock, John Revtai visited a tavern owned by Frank Magnelli, who that evening introduced him to the defendants. After drinking together the defendant Charles Evancho said he felt ill and asked Revtai to take him home, whereupon Revtai, Evancho and John Fela, the other defendant,…