Commonwealth v. Del Vaccio

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

Frank Del Vaccio, appellant, together with two others, Anthony Piccarilli and Danny Del Giorno, was indicted for the murder of Samuel Jacobs. The defendant was tried alone, on a plea of not guilty, and the jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree, assessing the death penalty as punishment; he was sentenced accordingly.

The killing occurred July 13, 1929, between five and six o’clock (D. S. T.) in the afternoon, on South Tenth Street between Federal and Ellsworth Streets, Philadelphia. At eleven o’clock on the morning of that day, Del Vaccio,…