Commonwealth v. Davis

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

We are herein presented with an appeal from a judgment of sentence upon defendant of the death penalty after his conviction of murder in the first degree.

On January 30, 1957 between 10:00 and 10:15 p.m. the victim, Emily Foster, left a bingo game in Vandergrift, Pa., to return to her home in Leechburg, Pa.— a distance of approximately five miles — and arrived there approximately fifteen minutes later. The defendant had followed her for some distance.1 Mrs. Foster had placed her car in the garage and closed the garage door when she was hit on the head…