Commonwealth v. Roddy
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 136, Oct. T., 1897, by-defendants, from judgment of 0. & T. Somerset Co., Dec. T., 1896, No. 2, on verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Indictment for murder. Before Longenecker, P. J., of tlie 16tb judicial district, specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 136, Oct. T., 1897, by-defendants, from judgment of 0. & T. Somerset Co., Dec. T., 1896, No. 2, on verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Indictment for murder. Before Longenecker, P. J., of tlie 16tb judicial district, specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial tlie commonwealth offered to prove by William J. Horner, tlie witness on the stand, that on the night of the burglary at David Berkey’s, two of witness’s horses were taken out of his stable; that they were led up to David Berkey’s house and tied to the fence; that…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion bv
Mb. Justice Williams,
The evidence before the court and jury on the trial of the defendants in this case disclosed a murder of shocking barbarity and as useless to the murderers as it was cruel. It appeared that the dwelling house of David Berkey and his wife, situated in Paint township, Somerset county, was forcibly entered on the night of June 2, 1896, by two masked men. They demanded money. Berkey and his wife were taken from their bed, bound, beaten and threatened with death if they did not at once tell the place where their money was kept. These modes of persuasion were…
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