Commonwealth v. Scherer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 102, Oct. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Allegheny Co., June T., 1919, No. 15, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, in case of Commonwealth v. Charles E. Scherer. Indictment for murder. Before Langham, P. J., specially presiding. Verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 102, Oct. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Allegheny Co., June T., 1919, No. 15, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, in case of Commonwealth v. Charles E. Scherer. Indictment for murder. Before Langham, P. J., specially presiding. Verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree upon which judgment of sentence was passed. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned, among others, were as follows: 2. The learned court erred in its charge as a whole in that as a whole it is misleading, in that he instructed the jury that the defense was insanity, where in fact…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
This is a case of wife murder. The defendant, Charles E. Scherer, married the deceased in 1909, at Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a widower with seven children and was twenty years her senior. They resided at Wilmington until 1917 when they removed to Pittsburgh. She proved an excellent stepmother and they seemed to live happily for some years, but he became intensely jealous and when in liquor was abusive. On such occasions he used threatening language and sometimes menaced her with a revolver, so that she repeatedly caused his arrest and more than once…
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