Brown v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Criminal Court of Schuylkill county: No. 226, to January Term 1874. At the April Term 1872, of the Criminal Court of Schuylkill county, two indictments were found against Joseph Brown; one for the murder of Daniel S. Kraemer, and the other for the murder of Annetta Kraemer his wife. He was tried at the August Term 1872 on the indictment for the murder of the husband, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hung.
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Error to the Criminal Court of Schuylkill county: No. 226, to January Term 1874. At the April Term 1872, of the Criminal Court of Schuylkill county, two indictments were found against Joseph Brown; one for the murder of Daniel S. Kraemer, and the other for the murder of Annetta Kraemer his wife. He was tried at the August Term 1872 on the indictment for the murder of the husband, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hung. The record was removed to the Supreme Court by writ of error, and the judgment there reversed; one of the grounds of the reversal being that…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
On the night of the 25th of February 1872, Daniel S. Kraemer, a farmer of reputed wealth, aged about sixty years, and his wife, were murdered on his farm in Washington township, Schuylkill county. She was found on the next morning lying across her bed insensible and partially undressed, but afterwards became conscious and able to state some of the circumstances of that night, and died on the 4th of March following. Her son, living away from home, who first found her, ran to give the alarm, and on his way discovered the dead body of his father lying at a distance from the house of about three…
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