Commonwealth v. Wucherer

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,.Defendant makes what the District Attorney properly characterizes as a “frontal attack” on the law of evidence relating to the proof of murder, — an attack which cannot be sustained by the weight of authority, by expediency, or by analytic reasoning.

Helen M. Wucherer and August Wucherer were married in 1930 or 1931. They lived together in apparent amity until the husband-came under the spell of another woman; thereafter he was cruel to his wife both in words and action. Sometime around the middle of October, 1943, she purchased a revolver for the purpose,…