Commonwealth v. Karamarkovic
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 80, Oct. T., 1907, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Cambria Co., Dec. T., 1905, No. 7, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Marko Karamarkovic. Indictment for murder. Before O’Connor, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Yerdict of guilty of murder of the first degree upon which sentence was passed.
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Appeal, No. 80, Oct. T., 1907, by defendant, from judgment of O. & T. Cambria Co., Dec. T., 1905, No. 7, on verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree in case of Commonwealth v. Marko Karamarkovic. Indictment for murder. Before O’Connor, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Yerdict of guilty of murder of the first degree upon which sentence was passed. Errors assigned were various rulings and instructions sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chiee Justice Mitchell,
Counsel seem to be slow in learning that the multiplication of assignments of error upon trivial points, having no substantial bearing on the merits of the issue, are always injurious to an appellant’s case by their inevitable suggestion that the record has been hunted over less to discover real error or injustice than to pick a flaw on which to hang an objection. Assignments of error in criminal cases are particularly open to this inference.
In this case the fact that the deceased was killed by stab ■wounds under circumstances that made it' murder ivas…
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