Commonwealth v. Mika
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 78, Jan. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T., Clearfield Co., Dee. T., 1893, No. 82, on verdict for murder in the first degree. Indictment for murder. Before Gordon, P. J. At the trial the testimony was in effect that on the night of Nov. 21, 1893, Vincent Lucasovich was wounded by a pistol bullet, which entered his left breast about two inches below the heart, resulting in his death about 48 hours thereafter.
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Appeal, No. 78, Jan. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T., Clearfield Co., Dee. T., 1893, No. 82, on verdict for murder in the first degree. Indictment for murder. Before Gordon, P. J. At the trial the testimony was in effect that on the night of Nov. 21, 1893, Vincent Lucasovich was wounded by a pistol bullet, which entered his left breast about two inches below the heart, resulting in his death about 48 hours thereafter. He had been boarding in the house of William Losee, about a mile and a half or two miles west of Houtzdale. On the day he was shot he had come home from his…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curtam,
The defendant was indicted for the murder of Vincent Lucasovich, a fellow workman in a coal mine, and was duly convicted of murder of the second degree. The cause of death was a pistol-shot wound, inflicted about midnight in a vital part. Death ensued in about forty-eight hours thereafter. Defendant was arrested about three hours after the fatal shot was fired; and, when confronted by deceased, the latter accused him of being the guilty agent. Shortly afterwards, the dying declarations of the deceased were taken by a justice of the peace ; and their admission in evidence…
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