Commonwealth v. Cressnger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 231, Jan. T., 1899, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. & T. Northumberland Co., Dec. T., 1898, No. 3, on verdict of guilty of murder. Indictment for murder. Before Savedg-e, P. J. At the trial it appeared that on October 10,1898, Daisy Smith, a girl about sixteen years of age, residing in Lower Augusta township, was shot and killed on her father’s farm. Suspicion was directed toward the prisoner, the son of a neighboring farmer.
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Appeal, No. 231, Jan. T., 1899, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. & T. Northumberland Co., Dec. T., 1898, No. 3, on verdict of guilty of murder. Indictment for murder. Before Savedg-e, P. J. At the trial it appeared that on October 10,1898, Daisy Smith, a girl about sixteen years of age, residing in Lower Augusta township, was shot and killed on her father’s farm. Suspicion was directed toward the prisoner, the son of a neighboring farmer. Two of the neighbors went to defendant’s home where they found him washing a shirt bespattered with blood. Counsel for the commonwealth offered to prove by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
The assignments of error to the refusal of the court to quash the venire and the array of jurors are without substantial bear*336ing on the only issue in the case, the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. They are purely technical, and technically the motions were too late. The irregularities on which the motions were based consisted in mistakes in the initials, the Christian names and the spelling of the surnames of five jurors in the panel of sixty. The identity of the persons whose names were put in the wheel with those who were drawn and summoned was not…
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