Commonwealth v. Shiroff

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

On the evening of June 10, 1937, one Raymond Mc-Cann died in a vacant house on Haverford Avenue, Philadelphia, from wood alcohol poisoning.

At the September Sessions, 1937, of the court below, Ned Shiroff, the proprietor of a painter’s supply store, was placed on trial, before Millar, J., and a jury, upon an indictment charging him with involuntary manslaughter, upon the theory that he sold McCann the denatured alcohol which caused his death, knowing it was dangerous to life if used as a beverage and' that he intended to so use it.

At the conclusion of the…