Commonwealth v. Neill

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

Defendant appeals from a conviction of murder of the first degree with the penalty of death. Notwithstanding an intensive study of the record commendably made by his counsel in order to detect and expose errors committed by the court below, we are not convinced that there were any of sufficient importance to justify, much less require, the granting of a new trial.

Defendant is a young man twenty-two years of áge. From his earliest youth he has lived an extremely unsettled life. He attended elementary public schools and junior high school in Philadelphia but…