State v. Krakus
Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer
Peter Krakus, alias Peter Melba, was indicted for murder of the first degree, charging him with killing Francis X. Tierney, a police officer, at Sixth and Market Streets, in the City of Wilmington, on Saturday afternoon, March 6, 1915, while the officer was attempting to arrest the prisoner. Further facts appear in the charge of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Pennewill, C. J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—The prisoner, Peter Krakus, alias Peter Melba, is charged in this indictment with murder of the first degree.
It is claimed by the state that the prisoner on Saturday, March sixth of the present year, at Sixth and Market Streets in this city, without excuse or justification, deliberately, designedly and with express malice aforethought, shot and killed Francis X. Tierney, a police officer of this city, while he was attempting, in the discharge of his duty, to arrest the prisoner. It is further claimed by the state that the prisoner had…
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