Commonwealth v. Elliott

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

This is an appeal by Mariot, or Marion, A. Elliott from a sentence to life imprisonment, following a verdict of first-degree murder for the killing of Henry T. Peirce on November 20, 1920.

The body of Peirce was found in his apartment, 2007 Market Street, Philadelphia, with at least twenty-five distinct wounds on the head, three or four of which, according to the testimony of the coroner’s physician, were “necessarily fatal”; there was a slight odor of escaping gas in the room, but the injuries to the head were the “primary cause” of death. One Treadway…