Commonwealth v. Straesser
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 25, Oct. T., 1893, by defendant, George Straesser, from judgment of O. & T. Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1892, No. 34, on verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Indictment for murder.
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Appeal, No. 25, Oct. T., 1893, by defendant, George Straesser, from judgment of O. & T. Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1892, No. 34, on verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Indictment for murder. At the trial, before Kennedy, P. J., and McClung, J., evidence for the commonwealth tended to show that between 8 and 9 o’clock on the evening of Aug. 3,1892, Joseph Brandi, the deceased, was standing in the yard belonging to his boarding house, which was kept by Mrs. Stuekenberger, close to the gate leading into Holt street, along the side of which and next to the yard, was a boardwalk, on…
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Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson,
The number and character of the wounds inflicted upon the person of the deceased is a sufficient answer to the allegation that the ease does not contain the elements of murder of the first degree.
We find no error in admitting the dying declarations of the deceased. They were objected to upon the sole ground that at the time they were made the deceased “ was more or less under the influence of drugs administered by Dr. Rossman.” The objection was too indefinite to be entitled to any weight. Had it been that the deceased was so far under the influence of drugs…
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