Commonwealth v. Stokes

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

Appellant was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

On December 10, 1959, at around 7:00 p.m., two police officers of the Borough of Braddock, Krehely and Reaves, while patrolling in the vicinity of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks on Braddock Avenue, received a call to proceed to 226 Halket Avenue — 100 yards from the B. & O. Railroad tracks. They testified that when they arrived at that address two minutes later, they found a Mrs. Barbara Martin, aged 76, who had been “brutally beaten”. She had two black eyes, a swollen…