Commonwealth v. Bednorciki
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 88, Oct. T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Beaver Co., Dec. T., 1917, No. 5, on verdict of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Broneslaw Bednorciki. Indictment for murder. Before Baldwin, P. J. Verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree, on which judgment of sentence was passed. Errors assigned were various rulings on evidence and instructions sufficiently appearing by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
This appeal by defendant is from the judgment on conviction of murder of the first degree. Charles Beink, the deceased, resided with his wife and children on a farm three miles from Beaver Falls and Broneslaw Bednorciki, the defendant, an unmarried man, lived with them. On the evening of September 8, 1917, the two men took a horse and buggy and drove to Beaver Falls where they did some shopping and started home together about ten o’clock. The next morning the deceased was found about one-half mile from his home down a bank some forty yards from the highway, so…
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