Harris v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment imposing npon appellant the death.' penalty for murdering his wife, from whom he had been separated for about two months, and who, about three weeks previous to the homicide, had him arrested and fined in the police court for “beating her up. ’ ’ *

The homicide by defendant, thoroughly established and brutally committed, is not denied, or its justification attempted by him in his testimony, his only defense being *543that from insanity or drunkenness or both, he did not knowingly do it, and had no recollection or…