Commonwealth v. Carroll

Opinion by

Mr. Chief J ustice Bell,

The defendant, Carroll, pleaded guilty generally to an indictment charging him with the murder of his wife, and was tried by a Judge without a jury in the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny County. That Court found him guilty of first degree murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Following argument and denial of motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial, defendant took this appeal. The only questions involved are thus stated by the appellant :(1) “Does not the evidence sustain a conviction no higher than murder in the second degree?”(2)…