Commonwealth v. Troy

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

Appellant is under sentence of death for the murder of his wife.

The circumstances of the killing are not in dispute. Defendant, his wife, four children and mother lived in a two-room house, one room down, and the other, upstairs. The mother slept on the first and the others on the second floor. Defendant, who had been drinking on the day of the crime, returned to his house early in the evening, took a revolver from the drawer of a chiffonier on the second floor and left the house, saying he intended to see some men about securing work and was taking the weapon…