Grant v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Chester county: (Eastern District.) Of July Term, 1872. George Grant was, at the October Sessions of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Chester county, indicted for the murder of Amanda R. Spence. The trial was had November 1st 1871, before Butler, P. J., and his associates.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Chester county: (Eastern District.) Of July Term, 1872. George Grant was, at the October Sessions of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Chester county, indicted for the murder of Amanda R. Spence. The trial was had November 1st 1871, before Butler, P. J., and his associates. On the 5th of October 1871, between 8 and 9 o’clock in the evening, Mrs. Spence went from her kitchen into her yard; shortly afterwards the report of a firearm was heard and persons going out found her lying by the door dead, with three gunshot wounds on her, sufficient to cause…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, C. J.
The plaintiff in error in this case was indicted and convicted in the court below, of the crime of murder in killing one Amanda E. Spence, by shooting her, and his case has been brought up for review under the provisions of the Act of Assembly of the 15th February 1870. The act allows a writ of error as of right “in all cases of murder and voluntary manslaughter,” and defines our duty to be “ to review both the law .and the evidence, and to determine whether the ingredients necessary to constitute murder in the first degree shall have…
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